Rounding a number to nearest even

[bdsatish]

On Apr 11, 4:37 pm, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Dani... at Acm.Org> wrote:
> bdsatish wrote:
> > The built-in function round( ) will always "round up", that is 1.5 is
> def rounded(v):
>      rounded = round(v)
>      if divmod(v, 1)[1] == .5 and divmod(rounded, 2)[1] == 1:
>         if v > 0:
>             return rounded - 1
>         return rounded + 1
>      return rounded
>
> last = None
> for n in range(-29, 28):
>      x = n * .25
>      r = xr(x)
>      if r != last:
>         last = r
>         print
>      print '%s->%s' % (x, xr(x)),
>

Hi Scott,
This is what I was looking for.. I forgot about divmod( ) thanks for
reminding.