how to improve this simple block of code

[Mike Meyer]

"py" <codecraig at gmail.com> writes:
> Say I have...
> x = "132.00"
> but I'd like to display it to be "132" ...dropping the trailing
> zeros...I currently try this

The two-strip solution is cleaner, but:

> if x.endswith("0"):
>     x = x[:len(x)-1]
      x = x[:-1]
or
      del x[-1]

both improve that one statement.

      <mike
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