Just use the "+" format specifier:
$current.outTemp.format("%+.2f") will give something like
+22.12 for positive temperature
-22.12 for negative temperature
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 9:35 AM D R <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the number is negative, it will print a "-" in front of the number.
>
> Despite looking through Python formatting pages from searches for Python
> Formatting, I cannot see that there is a provision to force a "+" in
> front of a number no matter what.
>
> For example:
>
> -23.7 is always given if negative,
>
> 45.2 is given but I'd like +45.2
>
> Is there a formatting character to do this? I guess a long logical
> string to determine if the value is greater than zero, then toggle to
> print "+" if true, but that seems more than what I want to waste CPU
> cycles. I was just hoping that some character had been assigned to
> force a +.
>
>
> Dale
>
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