Format a number containing a decimal point with leading zeroes

Question

I want to format a number with a decimal point in it with leading zeros.

This

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

considers all the digits and even the decimal point. Is there a function in python that considers only the whole part?

I only need to format simple numbers with no more than five decimal places. Also, using %5f seems to consider trailing instead of leading zeros.

Answer 1

Is that what you look for?

>>> "%07.1f" % 2.11
'00002.1'

So according to your comment, I can come up with this one (although not as elegant anymore):

>>> fmt = lambda x : "%04d" % x + str(x%1)[1:]
>>> fmt(3.1)
0003.1
>>> fmt(3.158)
0003.158

Answer 2

I like the new style of formatting.

loop = 2
pause = 2
print 'Begin Loop {0}, {1:06.2f} Seconds Pause'.format(loop, pause)
>>>Begin Loop 2, 0002.1 Seconds Pause

In {1:06.2f}:

• 1 is the place holder for variable pause
• 0 indicates to pad with leading zeros
• 6 total number of characters including the decimal point
• 2 the precision
• f converts integers to floats

Answer 3

Starting with a string as your example does, you could write a small function such as this to do what you want:

def zpad(val, n):
    bits = val.split('.')
    return "%s.%s" % (bits[0].zfill(n), bits[1])

>>> zpad('3.3', 5)
'00003.3'

Answer 4

Like this?

>>> '%#05.1f' % 3.3
'003.3'

Answer 5

print('{0:07.3f}'.format(12.34))

This will have total 7 characters including 3 decimal points, ie. "012.340"