On 07/22/2010 04:41 PM, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> On 22 July 2010 22:26, tvn <nguyenthanh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> is there a trick to convert RealLiteral numbers to strings without
>> the trailing zeros? e.g., 2.000000000000 and 0.55550500000 become 2
>> and 0.555505 respectively --
>
> sage: str(0.53253453425).rstrip(".0")
> '0.53253453425'
> sage: str(2).rstrip(".0")
> '2'
You might need to be careful about "rstripping" more than one character [1]:
sage: str(2010.000).rstrip('.0')
'201'
But
sage: str(2010.000).rstrip('0').rstrip('.')
'2010'
seems to work.
[1] http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.rstrip
str.lstrip and str.strip work similarly.
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