On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 14:21, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2010 18:09, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd appreciate constructive criticism.
>
> Instead of all the zeros2float craziness use string formatting. It
> will take care of rounding and the number of decimal places.
>
>>>> import datetime
>>>> lowz = 81.7499997345
>>>> timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
>>>> print "NEW LOW: %.4f at %s" % (lowz, timestamp)
> NEW LOW: 81.7500 at 22:55:13
>
> If you want to control the number of decimal places in the string
> formatting do something like:
>
>>>> i = 3
>>>> print ("NEW LOW: %%.%sf at %%s" % i) % (lowz, timestamp)
> NEW LOW: 81.750 at 22:55:13
>>>> i = 6
>>>> print ("NEW LOW: %%.%sf at %%s" % i) % (lowz, timestamp)
> NEW LOW: 81.750000 at 22:55:13
Thanks very much for the string formatting instruction.
Dick
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