Remove leading 0 in exponential format in python

Question

I have the following code in Python 3.1

"{0:.6E}".format(9.0387681E-8)

Which gives line 9.038768E-08, but I want line 9.038768E-8 with the leading 0 E-08 removed. How should I do it?

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Michael 13 Feb 13 at 21:07

1 answer

John la rooy · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-13T21:12:25+0000

you could do something like this

"{0:.6E}".format(9.0387681E-8).replace("E-0", "E-")

or better, since J. Bernardo suggests

format(9.0387681E-8, '.6E').replace("E-0", "E-")

You need to substitute for E+0

if you have large numbers