unusual exponential formatting puzzle

[Paul Rubin]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> Like a puzzle?  I need to interface python output to some strange old
> program.  It wants to see numbers formatted as:
> 
> e.g.: 0.23456789E01

Yeah, that was normal with FORTRAN.  

> My solution is to print to a string with the '% 16.9E' format, then
> parse it with re to pick off the pieces and fix it up.  Pretty ugly.
> Any better ideas?

That's probably the simplest.