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

I'd rather go for readable and simple than anything else: Let's handle the sign and the numerics independently. And a little in-line if statement never hurt anyone.

k = -.1337
"".join( ["-" if k < 0 else "", ("%.4f" % abs(k)).lstrip('0')] )