Formatting floats without trailing zeros

Question

How can I format a float so that it doesn\'t contain trailing zeros? In other words, I want the resulting string to be as short as possible.

For example:

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Answer 1

Handling %f and you should put

%.2f

, where: .2f == .00 floats.

Example:

print "Price: %.2f" % prices[product]

output:

Price: 1.50