Converting a Python Float to a String without losing precision

Question

I am maintaining a Python script that uses xlrd to retrieve values from Excel spreadsheets, and then do various things with them. Some of the cells in the spreadshe

Answer 1

You can use repr() to convert to a string without losing precision, then convert to a Decimal:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> f = 0.38288746115497402
>>> d = Decimal(repr(f))
>>> print d
0.38288746115497402