Print extremely large long in scientific notation in python
<p>Is there a way to get python to print extremely large longs in scientific notation? I am talking about numbers on the order of 10^1000 or larger, at this size the standard print "%e" % num fails.</p>

<p>For example:</p>

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Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) 
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
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>>> print "%e" % 10**100
1.000000e+100
>>> print "%e" % 10**1000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: float argument required, not long
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<p>It appears that python is trying to convert the long to a float and then print it, is it possible to get python to just print the long in scientific notation without converting it to a float?</p>
