Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'newbie': 0.05; 'float': 0.07; 'string': 0.09; 'ascii': 0.09; 'formatting': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:number': 0.09; 'works.': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'substitute': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'command': 0.22; 'appears': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'script.': 0.24; 'options': 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'characters': 0.30; "skip:' 10": 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.33; 'convert': 0.35; 'representing': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'error.': 0.37; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'either': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'numbers': 0.61; 'url:3': 0.61; 'john': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'total': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'characters,': 0.84; 'subject:message.': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Put float number in message. Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:32:38 +0000 References: <4e62c96c-aa5f-43fd-ba67-c147c5ef0b96@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-222-48.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <4e62c96c-aa5f-43fd-ba67-c147c5ef0b96@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1420317182 news.xs4all.nl 2924 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56754 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:83179 On 03/01/2015 19:23, John Culleton wrote: > Here is my last line in a simple program that is a scribus script. > end = scribus.messageBox('Book Spine Width', 'dummy', ICON_WARNING, BUTTON_OK) > > This works. Now I want to put a float number called S instead of 'dummy'. > If I just put S in the command I get an error. If I convert S to a string with > SS = str(S) > first and then > and substitute SS for 'dummy' I get what appears to be the ASCII numbers representing the characters, not the characters I want. > > I am a total newbie with Python. Anyone have a suggestion? Can I use a print command instead? > > John Culleton > I think you just want some string formatting so (untested) either end = scribus.messageBox('Book Spine Width', '{}'.format(S), ICON_WARNING, BUTTON_OK) or end = scribus.messageBox('Book Spine Width', '%f' % S, ICON_WARNING, BUTTON_OK) For all the formatting options see https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#string-formatting or https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting respectively. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence