2009/3/30 Chris Castillo <ctcast at gmail.com>: > that is what I have so far but I need to create a condition where I need > only 10 sufficient numbers from the variable decnum2. I know I need > something like > if len(decnum2) > 11: > decnum2 = decnum2[0:11] Perhaps the round() function will help? >>> round(12345, -2) 12300.0 -- John.