Decompose a float into mantissa and exponent in base 10 without strings

Question

Are there functions in the Python library or numpy that take a float as input and return its decimal scientific notation decomposition, i.e. mantissa and exponent? Or is the

Answer 1

I'm hoping there's a better answer but I came up with

from math import floor, log10

def fexp(f):
    return int(floor(log10(abs(f)))) if f != 0 else 0

def fman(f):
    return f/10**fexp(f)