How to suppress scientific notation when printing float values?

Question

Here's my code:

x = 1.0
y = 100000.0    
print x/y

My quotient displays as 1.00000e-05.

Is there any way to suppress scientific notation and make it display as 0.00001? I'm going to use the result as a string.

Answer 1

'%f' % (x/y)

but you need to manage precision yourself. e.g.,

'%f' % (1/10**8)

will display zeros only.
details are in the docs

Or for Python 3 the equivalent old formatting or the newer style formatting