Python Floating Point Formatting
I've seen a few questions about this already, but none that I read helped
me actually understand why what I am trying to do is failing.
So I have a bunch of floating point values, and they have different
precisions. Some are 0.1 others are 1.759374, etc. And I want to format
them so they are ALL in the form of "+0.0000000E+00" I tried doing
number = '%1.7f' % oldnumber
but that didn't work. I thought what I was telling it to do was "one digit
perfor the decimal point, and 7 after, float" but it doesn't work. I'm not
really getting the examples in the docs, which don't seem to even bother
with "before and after decimal point" issues, and I didn't find a question
that was about before and after decimal point fixing.
Now, I know that some of my numbers are 0.0437 or similar, and I want them
to appear as 4.3700000E-02 or something. I was sort of hoping it would do
the E bit on it's own, but if it doesn't how do I do it?
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