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

Try this:

>>> def scientific_notation(v): # Note that v should be a string for eval()
        d = Decimal(eval(v))
        e = format(d, '.6e')
        a = e.split('e')
        b = a[0].replace('0','')
        return b + 'e' + a[1]

>>> scientific_notation('10**1000')
'1.e+1000'
>>> scientific_notation('10**1000')
'1.e+1000'
>>> sc('108007135253151**1000') # Even handles large numbers
'2.83439e+14033'