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

Python's standard lib's str.format() can be used to generate the string conversion of the float value. Then the string can be manipulated to form a final result for either a positive or negative number.

n = -.1234567890
print('{0}'.format('-' if n < 0 else '') + ('{:0.4}'.format(n).split('-')[1 if n < 0 else 0].lstrip('0')))