How to have negative zero always formatted as positive zero in a python string?

Question

I have the following to format a string: ``` '%.2f' % n ``` If `n` is a negative zero (`-0`, `-0.000` etc) the output will be `-0.00`. How do I make the output always `0.00` for both negative and positive zero values of `n`? (It is fairly straight forward to achieve this but I cannot find what I would call a succinct pythonic way. Ideally there is a string formatting option that I am not aware of.)

Accepted Answer

Add zero:

```
>>> a = -0.0
>>> a + 0
0.0
```

which you can format:

```
>>> '{0:.3f}'.format(a + 0)
'0.000'
```

How to have negative zero always formatted as positive zero in a python string?

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