python convert a list of float to string

Use string formatting to get the desired number of decimal places.

>>> nums = [1883.95, 1878.3299999999999, 1869.4300000000001, 1863.4000000000001]
>>> ['{:.2f}'.format(x) for x in nums]
['1883.95', '1878.33', '1869.43', '1863.40']

The format string {:.2f} means "print a fixed-point number (f) with two places after the decimal point (.2)". str.format will automatically round the number correctly (assuming you entered the numbers with two decimal places in the first place, in which case the floating-point error won't be enough to mess with the rounding).

map(lambda n: '%.2f'%n, [1883.95, 1878.3299999999999, 1869.4300000000001, 1863.4000000000001])

map() invokes the callable passed in the first argument for each element in the list/iterable passed as the second argument.