On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Lacrima <lacrima.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I need to format a decimal (floating point) number in the following > way: > 10 results in '10' > 10.5 results in '10.5' > 10.50 results in '10.5' > 10.5678 results in 10.57 > > How can I achieve this using standard Python string formatting > operations? > Something like '%.2f' works almost as expected: >>>> '%.2f' % 10.5 > '10.50' >>>> '%.2f' % 10.5678 > '10.57' >>>> '%.2f' % 10 > '10.00' > But I always need trailing zeros to be excluded, i.e. 10.5 should > result in '10.5' (not '10.50'), and 10 should result in '10' (not > '10.00'). > So how can I do this?
('%.2f' % 10).rstrip('0').rstrip('.') Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list