Print floating point values without leading zero

Question

Trying to use a format specifier to print a float that will be less than 1 without the leading zero. I came up with a bit of a hack but I assume there is a way to just drop

Answer 1

One viable option which works without regex and with negative numbers greater than 10

k = -.1337
("%.4f" % k).replace("-0","-").lstrip("0")