How to suppress scientific notation when printing float values?

floating-point, python

Solution

'%f' % (x/y)

but you need to manage precision yourself. e.g.,

'%f' % (1/10**8)

will display zeros only. details are in the docs

Or for Python 3 the equivalent old formatting or the newer style formatting

Problem

Here's my code: ``` x = 1.0 y = 100000.0 print x/y ``` My quotient displays as `1.00000e-05`. Is there any way to suppress scientific notation and make it display as `0.00001`? I'm going to use the result as a string.

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