ENH: add option chop_threshold to control display of small numerical values as zero

[ghost]

Doesn't cover complex numbers for now (no formatter implemented in format.py)

I think the "supress" kwd choice in numpy is not that awesome. So I borrowed chop from
the mathematica parlance.
#2734

[sglyon]

It does what I asked - Thanks!

There is one improvement I think we could make. Assuming I have set the precision option to 5, when displaying a chopped entry near other data in scientific format (something like 2.54443e-03), the chopped value will display as0.00000e+00. It would be nice if it just printed 0 instead of '0.' + '0' * precision + 'e+00'.

A side note, is there a way to control if things are printed in scientific format (with the e's)?

[ghost]

You can look at the code for pandas.set_eng_float_format to see how it's done,
and you can pass your own formatters to to_string() for even more control.

[wesm]

cherry picked. thanks

[ghost]

added mention to v0.11.0.txt and pushed.