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Python: how do I format numbers for a fixed width?

let's say

numbers = [ 0.7653, 10.2, 100.2325, 500.9874 ]

I would like to print fixed-width numbers by changing the number of decimal places to get this output:

0.7653
10.200
100.23
500.98

Is there an easy way to do this? I tried with various configurations %fand %dwith no luck.

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A combination of two str.format/ formatnames:

numbers = [ 0.7653, 10.2, 100.2325, 500.9874 ]
>>> for n in numbers:
...     print('{:.6s}'.format('{:0.4f}'.format(n)))
...     #  OR format(format(n, '0.4f'), '.6s')
...
0.7653
10.200
100.23
500.98

or %operator :

>>> for n in numbers:
...     print('%.6s' % ('%.4f' % n))
...
0.7653
10.200
100.23
500.98

Alternatively you can use slicing :

>>> for n in numbers:
...     print(('%.4f' % n)[:6])
...
0.7653
10.200
100.23
500.98
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def to_fixed_width(n, max_width, allow_overflow = True, do_round = True):
    if do_round:
        for i in range(max_width - 2, -1, -1):
            str0 = '{:.{}f}'.format(n, i)
            if len(str0) <= max_width:
                break
    else:
        str0 = '{:.42f}'.format(n)
        int_part_len = str0.index('.')
        if int_part_len <= max_width - 2:
            str0 = str0[:max_width]
        else:
            str0 = str0[:int_part_len]
    if (not allow_overflow) and (len(str0) > max_width):
        raise OverflowError("Impossible to represent in fixed-width non-scientific format")
    return str0

:

>>> to_fixed_width(0.7653, 6)
'0.7653'
>>> to_fixed_width(10.2, 6)
'10.200'
>>> to_fixed_width(100.2325, 6)
'100.23'
>>> to_fixed_width(500.9874, 6)
'500.99'
>>> to_fixed_width(500.9874, 6, do_round = False)
'500.98'

:

>>> to_fixed_width(-0.3, 6)
'-0.300'
>>> to_fixed_width(0.000001, 6)
'0.0000'
>>> to_fixed_width(999.99, 6)
'999.99'
>>> to_fixed_width(999.999, 6)
'1000.0'
>>> to_fixed_width(1000.4499, 6)
'1000.4'
>>> to_fixed_width(1000.4499, 6, do_round = False)
'1000.4'
>>> to_fixed_width(12345.6, 6)
'12346'
>>> to_fixed_width(1234567, 6)
'1234567'
>>> to_fixed_width(1234567, 6, allow_overflow = False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 15, in to_fixed_width
OverflowError: Impossible to represent in fixed-width non-scientific format
>>> to_fixed_width(float('nan'), 6)
'nan'
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