Print extremely large long in scientific notation in python

Question

Is there a way to get python to print extremely large longs in scientific notation? I am talking about numbers on the order of 10^1000 or larger, at this size the standard print

Answer 1

Here's a solution using only standard library:

>>> import decimal
>>> x = 10 ** 1000
>>> d = decimal.Decimal(x)
>>> format(d, '.6e')
'1.000000e+1000'