Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05

From	Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05
Date	2015-05-07 10:00 +0200
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Am 03.05.2015 um 10:48 schrieb Ben Finney:
> That's not as clear as it could be. Better is to be explicit about
> choosing “exponential” format::
> 
>     >>> foo = 5.223701009526849e-05
>     >>> "{foo:5.0e}".format(foo=foo)
>     '5e-05'
> 

Or even better the "general" format, which also works for 0.9999:

    >>> "{foo:.1g}".format(foo=5.223701009526849e-5)
    '5e-05'
    >>> "{foo:.1g}".format(foo=0.9999)
    '1'

I guess all roads lead to Rome...

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Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 10:11 +0200
  Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-03 18:40 +1000
    Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 11:22 +0200
      Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 19:51 +1000
        Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-03 12:02 +0200
          Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 20:57 +1000
      Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-03 07:34 -0400
  Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-03 18:48 +1000
    Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2015-05-07 10:00 +0200

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