How to get numbers after decimal point?

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ANSWER 1

5.55 % 1

Keep in mind this won't help you with floating point rounding problems. I.e., you may get:

0.550000000001

Or otherwise a little off the 0.55 you are expecting.

What about:

a = 1.3927278749291
b = a - int(a)

b
>> 0.39272787492910011

Or, using numpy:

import numpy
a = 1.3927278749291
b = a - numpy.fix(a)

Using the decimal module from the standard library, you can retain the original precision and avoid floating point rounding issues:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> Decimal('4.20') % 1
Decimal('0.20')

As kindall notes in the comments, you'll have to convert native floats to strings first.

An easy approach for you:

number_dec = str(number-int(number))[1:]