Can I format decimal places by column with a dictionary?

[Mark17]

Here's some code:

markets = {'ES':2, 'GC':1, 'CL':2, 'EC':4, 'US':4} merge_list = [] pd.options.display.float_format = '{:.2f}'.format for market in markets: columnname_0 = market+'_Close' columnname_1 = market+'_Daily_Rtn' columnname_2 = market+'_Cum_Rtn' columnname_3 = market+'_Value' df_name = market market = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\drkle\{}(daily).csv'.format(market), parse_dates=["Date"], index_col="Date") merge_list.append(market_cut) merged_df = pd.concat(merge_list, axis=1)

I've since realized I don't want two decimal places for all columns. I changed Line 1 from a list to dictionary with values equal to the desired number of decimal places (in column 0 for each component dataframe). I found this line on SO:

market_cut[df_name] = market_cut[df_name].map('{:,.2f}'.format)

How might I build that out to call the values of markets to format accordingly (e.g. 'ES_Close' column to two decimal places, 'GC_Close' column to one decimal place, 'EC_Close' to four decimal places, etc.)? Alternatively, can you think of another way to do this? Thanks!

[Mark17]

This works:

format_mapping = {markets[0]+'_Close':'{:.2f}',markets[1]+'_Close':'{:.1f}',markets[2]+'_Close':'{:.2f}', markets[3]+'_Close':'{:.4f}', markets[4]+'_Close':'{:.4f}'} for key, value in format_mapping.items(): merged_df[key] = merged_df[key].apply(value.format)

I did a lot of reading on df.style.format. This did not work:

format_dict = {markets[0]+'_Close':'{:.2f}',markets[1]+'_Close':'{:.1f}',markets[2]+'_Close':'{:.2f}', markets[3]+'_Close':'{:.4f}', markets[4]+'_Close':'{:.4f}'} merged_df.style.format(format_dict) 

Does anyone know what might be wrong with that? No Traceback... just nothing happened.

[Mark17]

This works:

format_mapping = {markets[0]+'_Close':'{:.2f}',markets[1]+'_Close':'{:.1f}',markets[2]+'_Close':'{:.2f}', markets[3]+'_Close':'{:.4f}', markets[4]+'_Close':'{:.4f}'} for key, value in format_mapping.items(): merged_df[key] = merged_df[key].apply(value.format)

I did a lot of reading about df.style.format . I don't understand why this did not work:

format_dict = {markets[0]+'_Close':'{:.2f}',markets[1]+'_Close':'{:.1f}',markets[2]+'_Close':'{:.2f}', markets[3]+'_Close':'{:.4f}', markets[4]+'_Close':'{:.4f}'} merged_df.style.format(format_dict) #WHY DID THIS NOT WORK?

I didn't get a Traceback. I just didn't see any formatting occur. Does it have to do with printing a df rather than a table?
Did I have to do something else to print out the Styler object (which did seem to be there when I typed merged_df.style and/or merged_df.style.format)?

I'm using Python 3.7.9.