Cutting off trailing zeroes?

[Gerrit Holl]

Janos Blazi wrote on 949137250:
> Id like to format a string like this:
>   s = "(%f)" % x
> 
> Now if x=1.5 then s="1.50000" or something like this. Is there a tirivial
> way of cutting of the zeroes, i.e. getting s="1.5" instead of s="1.50000"?
> 
> Of course it can be programmed very simply. My question is: can I do it with
> specifiers somehow?

s = "(%s)" % str(x)

regards,
Gerrit.

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