How to format a floating number to fixed width in Python

How do I format a floating number to a fixed width with the following requirements:

  1. Leading zero if n < 1
  2. Add trailing decimal zero(s) to fill up fixed width
  3. Truncate decimal digits past fixed width
  4. Align all decimal points

For example:

% formatter something like '{:06}'
numbers = [23.23, 0.123334987, 1, 4.223, 9887.2]

for number in numbers:
    print formatter.format(number)

The output would be like

  23.2300
   0.1233
   1.0000
   4.2230
9887.2000

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