Pad python floats

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I want to pad some percentage values so that there are always 3 units before the decimal place. With ints I could use ‘%03d’ – is there an equivalent for floats?

‘%.3f’ works for after the decimal place but ‘%03f’ does nothing.

Asked By: hoju

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Answer 1

‘%03.1f’ works (1 could be any number, or empty string):

>>> "%06.2f"%3.3
'003.30'

>>> "%04.f"%3.2
'0003'

Note that the field width includes the decimal and fractional digits.

Answered By: Jonathan Graehl

Answer 2

You could use str.zfill as well:

str(3.3).zfill(5)
'003.3'

Answered By: Mark

Answer 3

Alternatively, if you want to use .format:

              {:6.1f}
                ↑ ↑ 
                | |
# digits to pad | | # of decimal places to display

Copy paste: {:6.1f}

The 6 above includes digits to the left of the decimal, the decimal marker, and the digits to the right of the decimal.

Examples of usage:

'{:6.2f}'.format(4.3)
Out[1]: '  4.30'

f'{4.3:06.2f}'
Out[2]: '004.30'

'{:06.2f}'.format(4.3)
Out[3]: '004.30'

Answered By: noɥʇʎԀʎzɐɹƆ

Answer 4

A short example:

var3= 123.45678
print(
    f'rounded1    t {var3:.1f} n' 
    f'rounded2    t {var3:.2f} n' 
    f'zero_pad1   t {var3:06.1f} n'  #<-- important line
    f'zero_pad2   t {var3:07.1f}n'   #<-- important line
    f'scientific1 t {var3:.1e}n'
    f'scientific2 t {var3:.2e}n'
)

Gives the output

rounded1         123.5 
rounded2         123.46 
zero_pad1        0123.5 
zero_pad2        00123.5
scientific1      1.2e+02
scientific2      1.23e+02

Answered By: Kolibril

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