Fix formatting of complex floats with exponents

Author: snitish

pandas/io/formats/format.py

@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ def _trim_zeros_complex(str_complexes: ArrayLike, decimal: str = ".") -> list[st
         # The split will give [{"", "-"}, "xxx", "+/-", "xxx", "j", ""]
         # Therefore, the imaginary part is the 4th and 3rd last elements,
         # and the real part is everything before the imaginary part
-        trimmed = re.split(r"([j+-])", x)
+        trimmed = re.split(r"(?<!e)([j+-])", x)
         real_part.append("".join(trimmed[:-4]))
         imag_part.append("".join(trimmed[-4:-2]))
 

pandas/tests/io/formats/test_to_string.py

@@ -422,6 +422,23 @@ def test_to_string_complex_float_formatting(self):
             )
             assert result == expected
 
+        # GH #60393
+        with option_context("display.precision", 6):
+            df = DataFrame(
+                {
+                    "x": [
+                        (1.8816e-09 + 0j),
+                        (1.8816e-09 + 3.39676e-09j),
+                    ]
+                }
+            )
+            result = df.to_string()
+            expected = (
+                "                            x\n0  1.881600e-09+0.000000e+00j\n"
+                "1  1.881600e-09+3.396760e-09j"
+            )
+            assert result == expected
+
     def test_to_string_format_inf(self):
         # GH#24861
         df = DataFrame(