On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:42:30 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:08:19 -0700, zunbeltz wrote:
>
>> For compatibility reasons with an old program I have to format string
>> in exponential format with the following format
>>
>> 0.xxxxxE-yy
>>
>> This means that the number start always by 0 and after the exponent
>> there should be alway the sing and 2 number for the exponent.
>>
>> for example 13 shoud be 0.13000E+02
>> I always get 1.30000E001
>
> I don't know if this is platform dependent but this works for me:
>
> In [41]: '%e' % 1.3
> Out[41]: '1.300000e+00'
>
> In [42]: ('%e' % 1.3).upper()
> Out[42]: '1.300000E+00'
Alas, you've missed the Original Poster's requirement that the formatted
number always starts with 0.
Also, an easier way to format floats with a capital E is to use %E
instead of %e.
I don't believe there is a standard way of formatting floats with a
leading zero.
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