How to format a floating number to fixed width in Python

by 
numbers = [23.23, 0.1233, 1.0, 4.223, 9887.2]                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                
for x in numbers:                                                                                                                                                                               
    print("{:10.4f}".format(x))

prints

   23.2300
    0.1233
    1.0000
    4.2230
 9887.2000

The format specifier inside the curly braces follows the Python format string syntax. Specifically, in this case, it consists of the following parts:

  • The empty string before the colon means “take the next provided argument to format()” – in this case the x as the only argument.
  • The 10.4f part after the colon is the format specification.
  • The f denotes fixed-point notation.
  • The 10 is the total width of the field being printed, lefted-padded by spaces.
  • The 4 is the number of digits after the decimal point.

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