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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:14:05 +0100
Subject: Re: Need help removing trailing zeros
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On 26 June 2013 23:02,  <bandcamp57@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, i'm making a calculator and I want to be able to use decimals but =
I don't like it when it comes out as ex.12.0 when it should be 12. I tried =
using .rstrip("0".rstrip(".") but that never seemed to work. If anyone has =
a solution please let me know, all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Code:
<LOTS 'O CODE>

Was that really necessary?

All you needed to give use was "print(1.0)"; why post so much?

Either:
"{:g}".format(1.0)

or, if you hate scientific notation:
"{:f}".format(1.0).rstrip(".0")