Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Dustan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > > >>> print "%e" % 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 1.000000e+51
Exactly: the "%e" builds a ``scientific-notation" string from whatever number you're formatting that way (big or small). You can also use %g if what you want is fixed-point notation within a certain range and scientific notations only for numbers OUTSIDE that range, as in: >>> print '%g' % 10**5 100000 >>> print '%g' % 10**50 1e+50 Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
