Re: float to string with different precision

2007-08-10 Thread Roger Miller
On Aug 10, 8:37 am, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the above does not work > [/code]test_list = [ 5.32, 10.35634, 289.234 ] > for num in test_list : >str_num = "%11.5f" % (num) ## expand to at least 5 >print str_num, "-->", str_num.strip()[:5][/code] This has the disadva

Re: float to string with different precision

2007-08-10 Thread Zentrader
On Aug 10, 1:12 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have to print float numbers to a file. Each float should be 5 > > characters in width (4 numbers and the decimal point). > > My problem is that I do not now how to specify float to have different > > number

Re: float to string with different precision

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Otten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to print float numbers to a file. Each float should be 5 > characters in width (4 numbers and the decimal point). > My problem is that I do not now how to specify float to have different > numbers of decimals. For example > > 5.32 -> 5.320 > 10.356634 -> 10.357

float to string with different precision

2007-08-10 Thread zunbeltz
Hi, I have to print float numbers to a file. Each float should be 5 characters in width (4 numbers and the decimal point). My problem is that I do not now how to specify float to have different numbers of decimals. For example 5.32 -> 5.320 10.356634 -> 10.357 289.234 -> 289.2 In the string form