I have a sinking feeling I'm missing something really, really simple. I'm looking for a format string similar to '%.3f' except that trailing zeroes are not included.
To give some examples: Float String 1.0 1 1.1 1.1 12.1234 12.123 12.0001 12 and similar. Here is a (quick and dirty) reference implementation: def format(f, width=3): fs = '%%.%df' % width s = fs % f return s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') Is there a way of getting the same result with just a single string format expression? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list