Issues converting rounded float to string pandas

Question

I'm rounding a column from my dataframe to the nearest 5 floating point. After that I'm converting the column values into string, but when I do that the float go back as if they were unrounded. I'm using Python 2.7

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_excel(C:"path")

def custom_round(x, base=5):
    return base * round(float(x)/base)

df['A'] = df['kl'].apply(lambda x: custom_round(x, base=.05))
df['b'] = "D = "  + df['A'].astype(str)


     kl     A                       b  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600000  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600000  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600587  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.601573  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.601168  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600000  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.600001  0.60  D = 0.6000000000000001  
 0.850001  0.85  D = 0.8500000000000001  

Answer 1

Here I think you can use string formatting. I use '${:,.2f}'.format(1234.5) (source here) for formatting dollars and cents, but I was able to use the same formatting method in a lambda function for your float to string.

import pandas as pd 
data = {'kl' : [0.600001, 0.600001, 0.600000, 0.600000, 
                0.600587, 0.601573, 0.601168, 0.600001, 
                0.600001, 0.600001, 0.600000, 0.600001, 
                0.600001, 0.600001, 0.600001, 0.850001]}
df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)

def custom_round(x, base=5):
    return base * round(float(x)/base)

df['A'] = df['kl'].apply(lambda x: custom_round(x, base=.05))
df['b'] = "D = " + df['A'].apply(lambda s: '{:,.5f}'.format(s))

Answer 2

First do the rounding using your function

df['A'] = df['kl'].apply(lambda x: custom_round(x, base=.05))

Now, you can use python's string formatting to round your floats

df['b'] =  df['A'].apply(lambda x:  'D = ' + '{:.5f}'.format(x))

I am not sure if this is valid for python 2.7, if not you can try

df['b'] = df['A'].apply(lambda x:  'D = ' + '%.5f' % (x,))