How to pretty-print a numpy.array without scientific notation and with given precision?

Question

I\'m curious, whether there is any way to print formatted numpy.arrays, e.g., in a way similar to this:

x = 1.23456
print \'%.3f\' % x


        

Answer 1

You can get a subset of the np.set_printoptions functionality from the np.array_str command, which applies only to a single print statement.

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.array_str.html

For example:

In [27]: x = np.array([[1.1, 0.9, 1e-6]]*3)

In [28]: print x
[[  1.10000000e+00   9.00000000e-01   1.00000000e-06]
 [  1.10000000e+00   9.00000000e-01   1.00000000e-06]
 [  1.10000000e+00   9.00000000e-01   1.00000000e-06]]

In [29]: print np.array_str(x, precision=2)
[[  1.10e+00   9.00e-01   1.00e-06]
 [  1.10e+00   9.00e-01   1.00e-06]
 [  1.10e+00   9.00e-01   1.00e-06]]

In [30]: print np.array_str(x, precision=2, suppress_small=True)
[[ 1.1  0.9  0. ]
 [ 1.1  0.9  0. ]
 [ 1.1  0.9  0. ]]

Answer 2

Yet another option is to use the decimal module:

import numpy as np
from decimal import *

arr = np.array([  56.83,  385.3 ,    6.65,  126.63,   85.76,  192.72,  112.81, 10.55])
arr2 = [str(Decimal(i).quantize(Decimal('.01'))) for i in arr]

# ['56.83', '385.30', '6.65', '126.63', '85.76', '192.72', '112.81', '10.55']