how to improve this simple block of code

[Roy Smith]

In article <1136987885.792305.119640 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "py" <codecraig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Say I have...
> x = "132.00"
> 
> but I'd like to display it to be "132" ...dropping the trailing
> zeros...I currently try this


This sounds to me like a job for regular expressions.  Something like:

re.sub (r'\.?0*$', '', x)

will do what you want.  Check out the re module in the docs for more 
details.