On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:58:05 -0000, py <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say I have... > x = "132.00" > > but I'd like to display it to be "132" ...dropping the trailing > zeros...
How about: if "." in x: x, frac = x.split(".") frac = frac.rstrip("0") if frac: x = x + "." + frac Copes if x = "132" too. If there'll always be a decimal point, then you can leave off the initial "if". Matt -- | Matt Hammond | R&D Engineer, BBC Research & Development, Tadworth, Surrey, UK. | http://kamaelia.sf.net/ | http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list