[Sivakumar Bhaskarapanditha] > How can I control the number of digits after the decimal point using the %g > format specifier.
You cannot. See a C reference for details; in general, %g is required to truncate trailing zeroes, and in %<m>.<n>g the <n> is the maximum number of significant digits displayed (the total number both before and after the decimal point). If you need to preserve trailing zeroes, then you need to write code to do that yourself, or use the %e format code (or maybe even %f). For example, >>> a = 1.234e-5 >>> print "%.6g" % a 1.234e-005 >>> print "%.60g" % a 1.234e-005 >>> print "%.6e" % a 1.234000e-005 >>> print "%.6f" % a 0.000012 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
