On Aug 10, 1:12 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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
If the above does not work [/code]test_list = [ 5.32, 10.35634, 289.234 ] for num in test_list : str_num = "%11.5f" % (num) ## expand to at least 5 print str_num, "-->", str_num.strip()[:5][/code] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
