On Jul 28, 12:34 am, Gary Herron <gher... at islandtraining.com> wrote: > This will work as you wish: > math.floor(x+0.5) This works fine for positive x but what about negative: >>> round(2.5) 3.0 >>> floor(2.5 + 0.5) 3.0 >>> round(-2.5) -3.0 >>> floor(-2.5 + 0.5) -2.0 Maybe: def round2(x): return math.floor(x + (0.5 if x >= 0 else -0.5))