[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to print float numbers to a file. Each float should be 5 > characters in width (4 numbers and the decimal point). > My problem is that I do not now how to specify float to have different > numbers of decimals. For example > > 5.32 -> 5.320 > 10.356634 -> 10.357 > 289.234 -> 289.2 > > In the string formating operations only fixed number of decimal digits > is allow.
>>> ["%#.4g" % f for f in [5.32, 10.356634, 289.234, 123456789.]] ['5.320', '10.36', '289.2', '1.235e+08'] Found by playing around with format strings, so no guarantees. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
