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 disadvantage that it doesn't round the last digit. For example 10.356634 yields 10.356 instead of 10.357. You can use '*' in format strings to take a numeric field value from a variable. For example ndecimals = 2 print "%5.*f" % (ndecimals, x) formats x with 2 digits following the decimal point. Or you can simply cobble up a format string at run time: format = "%%5.%df" % ndecimals print format % x -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
