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is there a way to, or a module that can, do this in python for both float and complex?  follow the link in the first comment for details.  ignore the 2nd comment.

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Decimal module has to_eng_string().
Use together with normalize().

λ ptpython
>>> from decimal import Decimal

>>> n = Decimal ('10000000')
>>> n.normalize()
Decimal('1E+7')
>>> n.normalize().to_eng_string()
'10E+6'

engineering_notation

λ pip install engineering_notation
Collecting engineering_notation
Downloading engineering_notation-0.3.3-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: engineering-notation
Successfully installed engineering-notation-0.3.3

>>> from engineering_notation import EngNumber

>>> n_1 = 10000000
>>> EngNumber(n_1)
10M
>>> EngNumber('10E+6')
10M