You shouldn't call your variable sum, as that's a name of a built in function: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sum Your problem however, stems from trying to add a string to a float. Could you please tell me, what is Adam + 5? Well, you can't, because it makes no mathematical sense. You didn't save the string representation str(sum), so sum never changed to a string What your research found is f-strings and they are very easy to use. Try: print(f"the sum of the values is {sum}") Simply, put an f before a string starts, then any string that you want goes between " and ", while any variables or other values go between { and }

I don't know what you mean: >>> a = '1721244344.700249000' >>> float(a) 1721244344.700249 These are all the decimal places. Trailing zeros will always be omitted as they are irrelevant. If you want to show them, do so when you output the value: >>> print(a.format("{:.9}")) 1721244344.700249000

With Python < 3 (e.g. 2.6 [see comments] or 2.7), there are two ways to do so.

# Option one
older_method_string = "%.9f" % numvar

# Option two
newer_method_string = "{:.9f}".format(numvar)

But note that for Python versions above 3 (e.g. 3.2 or 3.3), option two is preferred.

For more information on option two, I suggest this link on string formatting from the Python documentation.

And for more information on option one, this link will suffice and has info on the various flags.

Python 3.6 (officially released in December of 2016), added the f string literal, see more information here, which extends the str.format method (use of curly braces such that f"{numvar:.9f}" solves the original problem), that is,

# Option 3 (versions 3.6 and higher)
newest_method_string = f"{numvar:.9f}"

solves the problem. Check out @Or-Duan's answer for more info, but this method is fast.

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