drop trailing zeros from decimal

Question

I have a long list of Decimals and that I have to adjust by factors of 10, 100, 1000,..... 1000000 depending on certain conditions. When I multiply them there is sometimes

Answer 1

There's probably a better way of doing this, but you could use .rstrip('0').rstrip('.') to achieve the result that you want.

Using your numbers as an example:

>>> s = str(Decimal('2.5') * 10)
>>> print s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') if '.' in s else s
25
>>> s = str(Decimal('2.5678') * 1000)
>>> print s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') if '.' in s else s
2567.8

And here's the fix for the problem that gerrit pointed out in the comments:

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