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(deprecated)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">fpformat</span></tt></a> — Floating point conversions<a class="headerlink" href="#module-fpformat" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p class="deprecated"> <span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 2.6: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-fpformat" title="fpformat: General floating point formatting functions. (deprecated)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">fpformat</span></tt></a> module has been removed in Python 3.</p> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-fpformat" title="fpformat: General floating point formatting functions. (deprecated)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">fpformat</span></tt></a> module defines functions for dealing with floating point numbers representations in 100% pure Python.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">This module is unnecessary: everything here can be done using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%</span></tt> string interpolation operator described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#string-formatting"><em>String Formatting Operations</em></a> section.</p> </div> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-fpformat" title="fpformat: General floating point formatting functions. (deprecated)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">fpformat</span></tt></a> module defines the following functions and an exception:</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="fpformat.fix"> <tt class="descclassname">fpformat.</tt><tt class="descname">fix</tt><big>(</big><em>x</em>, <em>digs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#fpformat.fix" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Format <em>x</em> as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[-]ddd.ddd</span></tt> with <em>digs</em> digits after the point and at least one digit before. If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">digs</span> <span class="pre"><=</span> <span class="pre">0</span></tt>, the decimal point is suppressed.</p> <p><em>x</em> can be either a number or a string that looks like one. <em>digs</em> is an integer.</p> <p>Return value is a string.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="fpformat.sci"> <tt class="descclassname">fpformat.</tt><tt class="descname">sci</tt><big>(</big><em>x</em>, <em>digs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#fpformat.sci" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Format <em>x</em> as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[-]d.dddE[+-]ddd</span></tt> with <em>digs</em> digits after the point and exactly one digit before. If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">digs</span> <span class="pre"><=</span> <span class="pre">0</span></tt>, one digit is kept and the point is suppressed.</p> <p><em>x</em> can be either a real number, or a string that looks like one. <em>digs</em> is an integer.</p> <p>Return value is a string.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="fpformat.NotANumber"> <em class="property">exception </em><tt class="descclassname">fpformat.</tt><tt class="descname">NotANumber</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#fpformat.NotANumber" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when a string passed to <a class="reference internal" href="#fpformat.fix" title="fpformat.fix"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">fix()</span></tt></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#fpformat.sci" title="fpformat.sci"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">sci()</span></tt></a> as the <em>x</em> parameter does not look like a number. This is a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></tt></a> when the standard exceptions are strings. 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