Floating numbers and str

[Christian Stapfer]

"Tuvas" <tuvas21 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1131565949.678342.39890 at g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I would like to limit a floating variable to 4 signifigant digits, when
> running thorugh a str command. Ei,
>
>
> x=.13241414515
> y=str(x)+" something here"
>
> But somehow limiting that to 4 sign. digits. I know that if you use the
> print statement, you can do something like %.4d, but how can I do this
> with converting the number to a string? Thanks!

from scipy import round

print round(0.13241414515,4)

Regards,
Christian