[CentralOH] Plucking Digits From Float

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 14:36:01 -0500, Louis Bogdan <looiebwv at gmail.com> wrote:

> num is calculated value 1.2346
> a=num(-1) is indicating the numeral "6" with negative indexing notation.
> b=num(-2) is indicating the numeral "4"   "         "

I question the sanity of do so. Nonetheless. 

num = 1.2346
a = str(num)[-1]
b = str(num)[-2]

print num, a, b