round not rounding to 0 places

[Tim Leslie]

On 16 Aug 2006 00:19:24 -0700, Fuzzydave <Fuzzygoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using a round command in a few places to round
> a value to zero decimal places using the following format,
>
> round('+value+', 0)
>
> but this consistantly returns the rounded result of the value
> to one decimal place with a zero
>
> EG:
>
> 4.97 is returned as 5.0 when i want it returned as 5, does
> anyone know why this is and if i can get the round to make
> the value 5?

round returns a float. You probably want to convert it to an int.

>>> int(round(4.97))
5

Cheers,

Tim

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