I need to format a float to the format +-00.00, tried the basic string formatting but can\'t get the leading + or - sign or two leading 0s if the value is fractional, any po
Use '%+06.2f'
to set the width and precision appropriately. The equivalent using new-style format strings is '{:+06.2f}'.format(n)
(or '{0:+06.2f}'
if your version of Python requires the positional component).
Using this should do it
x = 50.4796
a = -50.1246
print " %+2.2f" % (x)
print " %+2.2f" % (a)
The following should print
+50.48
-50.12
'%+06.2f' % 1.1123344
+ means always use sign
0 means zero fill to full width.
6 is the total field width including sign and decimal point
.2 means 2 decimals.
f is float