On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:50:03AM +0200, Manuel Metz wrote:
> Just because the discussion about clabel started, I want to post a short 
> snipplet of code that I found useful. It was some sort of hack to get a 
> nicer float formating for contours: contour lines represented confidence 
> levels of 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 per cent, and I wanted a labeling exactly as 
> I have written it here now. So, fmt='%.1f\%%' would have resulted in 
> 1.0% 2.5% 5.0% ... but I wanted 1% 2.5% 5% ...

The %g format produces "nice" numbers.

For example:

  >>> print " ".join(["%g%%"%v for v in [1.0,2.5,5.000001,10.03]])
  1% 2.5% 5% 10.03%

- Paul


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