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

I was dealing with a value from a json dictionary (returned by an API). All the above didnt help me so i constructed by own helper function. It truncates all the trailing zeros.

I Hope it helps someone out there

def remove_zeros(num):
    nums = list(num)
    indexes = (list(reversed(range(len(nums)))))
    for i in indexes:
        if nums[i] == '0':
            del nums[-1]
        else:
            break
    return "".join(nums)

num = "0.000000363000"
print(remove_zeros(num))

prints :

    0.000000363