Madhusudan Singh wrote: > I am looking to write a formatted string to a string variable : > > Say I have 1.067e-01, I need to write 106.700 to some string. > > In Fortran 95, this would be accomplished with a : > > character(len=7) :: stringvar > real :: stringval > > ... > > write(stringvar,'(f7.3)') stringval > > How does one do something like this in Python ? I need a string formatted in > this way for one of my applications.
stringvar = "%.3f" % stringval for details, see http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list