How can I control the number of digits in the exponent when writing floats to a file? It seems that Python2.4.2(winXP) prints three digits anyway.
>>> print 1.0e50 1e+050 >>> print '%e' % (1.0e50) 1e+050 I would prefer two digits in the exponent. Usually 3 digits is not a problem, except for waisted disk space in 99.999999% of all practical cases. But this time I have to write an interface file to a program written in an other programming language, and the output format requires a fix fortran format with 2 digits in the exponent. Can this be done in Python? Speed is an issue so I don't like the idea of rolling my own output function. It should be possible to do: >>> print '%12.5.2e' % (1.0e50) 1.000e+50 Thanks for any help! Jens -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
