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I have a float let say 8.8 and I want to format it into 0008.800

I read this http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting

If I do

'%06g'%(8.8)

I get 0008.8

but I still don't know how to include the other decimals

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Use %f not %g:

>>> '%08.3f'%(8.8)
'0008.800'

Where 8 is the width and 3 is the precision.

With new style string formatting:

>>> "{:08.3f}".format(8.8)
'0008.800'
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