On 26 June 2013 23:21, PyNoob <bandcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry about that... And thanks for your help, but I don't quite understand. That's fine, but...
> Would that make it off your example print("{:g}".format(1.0))? I don't understand this sentence. But, hey, I forgot to check what level you were working at -- there's little point running ahead of what you know. Did you try: print("{:g}".format(1.0)) ? It works for me. So, yes, that's what you want. So instead of: print("The quotient of", A, "and", B, "is: ", Answer) you want print("The quotient of", A, "and", B, "is: ", "{:g}".format(Answer)) See how I just used "{:g}".format as some kind of magic-fixing-power? Well, why does it work? [See http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format and the sub-links for a more full explanation] Run each of these in an interpreter: "{} {} {} {} {}".format("This", "is", "a", "formatted", "string!") "It is really useful: I have {} cows and {} sheep".format(number_of_cows, number_of_sheep) "It gives me back a formatted {}, which I can print".format(type("".format()).__name__) "I can also give things indexes: {3} {2} {1} {0}".format("Print", "in", "reverse", "order") "I can also give things names: {egg} {ham} {flies}".format(egg="Are", ham="you", flies="there?") "It's not just {:!<10}".format("that") "It lets me choose how I want things to be printed: {0:@^6}, {0:~>10}, {0:£<8}".format("Hi") "And for numbers: {0:e}, {0:.10%}, {0:#.1f}".format(123.456) So you just want the best formatter; see [http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language] Your best choice is "{:g}" which just means "general format". Note that you can also write your prints as so: print("The quotient of {} and {} is: {:g}".format(A, B, Answer)) Whether you prefer it is your choice. ------ In regards to .rstrip: It will only work on strings; so you need to convert like so: str(1.0).rstrip("0").rstrip(".") And note that: 1) My .rstrip("0.") was wrong and foolish (try str(10).rstrip("0.")) 2) This needs the string to be reliably formatted in this style: "{:#f}" *and* requires it to be a float. So really, you'd need: "{:#f}".format(float(number)).rstrip("0").rstrip(".") Which is ugly, but I guess it works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list