remove trailing zeros in python code example

Example 1: how to remove all zeros from a list in python

X = [0,5,0,0,3,1,15,0,12]
X = [i for i in X if i != 0]

Example 2: how to remove trailing zeros in python

a_string = a_string.strip("0")

Example 3: drop-trailing-zeros-from-decimal python

>>> s = str(Decimal('1500'))
>>> print s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') if '.' in s else s
1500