Print floating point values without leading zero

Question

Trying to use a format specifier to print a float that will be less than 1 without the leading zero. I came up with a bit of a hack but I assume there is a way to just drop

Answer 1

Use .lstrip(), after using string formatting to convert to a string:

>>> k = .1827412
>>> print ("%.4f"%(k)).lstrip('0')
.1827
>>> 

.lstrip() can be used to remove any of the leading characters of a string:

>>> k = 'bhello'
>>> print k.lstrip('b')
hello
>>> print k.lstrip('bhel')
o
>>> print k.lstrip('bel')
hello
>>> 

From the docs:

string.lstrip(s[, chars])

        Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed