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

A super short (although not very pythonic) one-liner, which also handles negative numbers:

k = -.1337
"-"*(k<0)+("%.4f"%abs(k)).lstrip('0')