floating point formatting python code example

Example 1: python format numeric output

for x in numbers:
    print "{:10.4f}".format(x)
prints

   23.2300
    0.1233
    1.0000
    4.2230
 9887.2000

Example 2: show all digits in python

>>> a
3.101541146879488e+80
>>> int(a)
310154114687948792274813492416458874069290879741385354066259033875756607541870592L
>>> long(a)
310154114687948792274813492416458874069290879741385354066259033875756607541870592L
>>> print (int(a))
310154114687948792274813492416458874069290879741385354066259033875756607541870592
>>> print (long(a))
310154114687948792274813492416458874069290879741385354066259033875756607541870592