python - Convert scientific notation to decimals

Question

I have numbers in a file (so, as strings) in scientific notation, like:

8.99284722486562e-02 

but I want to convert them to:

0.08992847

Is there any built-in function or any other way to do it?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure you can do this with:

float("8.99284722486562e-02")
# and now with 'rounding'
"{:.8f}".format(float("8.99284722486562e-02"))