Question

What I’m looking for is a way to write out a python Fraction() type to an arbitrary number of decimal places. I’ve looked at the python docs for Fraction and Decimal, but I can’t see any way to convert or to write out the Fraction.

So what I’m looking for is some way to print out

Fraction(5, 7)

as

0.7142857142857142857142857142857142857142857142857142

instead of

>> float(Fraction(5, 7))
0.7142857142857143

Specifying the number of DPs.

Answer 1

You can have arbitrary precision using the Decimal class.

from fractions import Fraction
from decimal import localcontext, Decimal

def print_fraction(f, digits):
    assert(f.imag == 0)

    # Automatically reset the Decimal settings
    with localcontext() as ctx:
        ctx.prec = digits
        print(Decimal(f.numerator) / Decimal(f.denominator))

f = Fraction(5, 7)
print_fraction(f, 52)

This will print 0.7142857142857142857142857142857142857142857142857143.