In order to make numpy display float arrays in an arbitrary format, you can define a custom function that takes a float value as its input and returns a formatted string:
In [1]: float_formatter = "{:.2f}".format
The f here means fixed-point format (not ‘scientific’), and the .2 means two decimal places (you can read more about string formatting here).
Let’s test it out with a float value:
In [2]: float_formatter(1.234567E3)
Out[2]: '1234.57'
To make numpy print all float arrays this way, you can pass the formatter= argument to np.set_printoptions:
In [3]: np.set_printoptions(formatter={'float_kind':float_formatter})
Now numpy will print all float arrays this way:
In [4]: np.random.randn(5) * 10
Out[4]: array([5.25, 3.91, 0.04, -1.53, 6.68]
Note that this only affects numpy arrays, not scalars:
In [5]: np.pi
Out[5]: 3.141592653589793
It also won’t affect non-floats, complex floats etc – you will need to define separate formatters for other scalar types.
You should also be aware that this only affects how numpy displays float values – the actual values that will be used in computations will retain their original precision.
For example:
In [6]: a = np.array([1E-9])
In [7]: a
Out[7]: array([0.00])
In [8]: a == 0
Out[8]: array([False], dtype=bool)
numpy prints a as if it were equal to 0, but it is not – it still equals 1E-9.
If you actually want to round the values in your array in a way that affects how they will be used in calculations, you should use np.round, as others have already pointed out.