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Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number

From Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number
Date 2013-03-26 17:06 +0000
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Chris Angelico <rosuav <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
> Try printing out this expression:
> 
> "%.2f"%value if value else ''
> 
> Without the rest of your code I can't tell you how to plug that in,
> but a ternary expression is a good fit here.
> 
> ChrisA
> 

Unfortunately, that's not working, but gives a TypeError: a float is required
when the first value evaluates to False.
Apparently it's not that easy to combine number formatting with logical
operators - the same happens with my idea ('{:.2f}').format(value or '').

Wolfgang



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I need a neat way to print nothing or a number cl@isbd.net - 2013-03-26 15:50 +0000
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 03:08 +1100
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-03-26 16:29 +0000
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2013-03-26 17:06 +0000
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 04:14 +1100
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-03-26 18:22 +0100
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-03-26 10:21 -0700
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 05:48 +1100
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2013-03-27 01:11 -0500
  Re: I need a neat way to print nothing or a number Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2013-03-27 08:23 +0000

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