Python equivalent to the "A" or "a" output conversions in C

[Alexander Blinne]

On 19.06.2012 18:23, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> Consider the following line in C:
>    printf('%a\n', x);
> where x is a float or double.  This outputs a hexadecimal representation
> of x.  Can I do this in Python?

Don't know why there is no format character %a or %A in python, but the
conversion is done by float method hex():

a = 3.1415
print a.hex()

Greetings