Is it possible to print 1e-3 instead of 0.001 using print function in Python?

Question

I want to print the number 1e-3 instead of 0.001 in python. Do we have any option in print function to print it?

number=0.001 print ('This is 0.6f ', number)

Possible duplicate of [Display a decimal in scientific notation](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913532/display-a-decimal-in-scientific-notation) — Shintlor, Sep 06 '18 at 08:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '18 at 06:34

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Not exactly from the print function, but you can achieve this with:

import decimal
number = '0.001'
print ('%.3E' % decimal.Decimal(number))

answered Sep 06 '18 at 06:34

Rene Trujillo

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