I think you answered your own question. :) x = 0.12345678 y = "%.4f something here" % x
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:52 -0800, Tuvas wrote: > I would like to limit a floating variable to 4 signifigant digits, when > running thorugh a str command. Ei, > > > x=.13241414515 > y=str(x)+" something here" > > But somehow limiting that to 4 sign. digits. I know that if you use the > print statement, you can do something like %.4d, but how can I do this > with converting the number to a string? Thanks! > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
