dropping trailing '.0' from floats

Question

I\'m looking for a way to convert numbers to string format, dropping any redundant \'.0\'

The input data is a mix of floats and strings. Desired output:

0

Answer 1

def floatstrip(x):
    if x == int(x):
        return str(int(x))
    else:
        return str(x)

Be aware, though, that Python represents 0.1 as an imprecise float, on my system 0.10000000000000001 .