round not rounding to 0 places

[Fuzzydave]

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?

David P

[Simon Forman]

Fuzzydave 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?

David P

|>n = 4.97
|>round(n)
5.0
|>int(round(n))
5
|>help(round)
Help on built-in function round in module __builtin__:

round(...)
round(number[, ndigits]) -floating point number

Round a number to a given precision in decimal digits (default 0
digits).
This always returns a floating point number. Precision may be
negative.
HTH,
~Simon
BTW, '+value+' ..? Huh?

[Tim Leslie]

On 16 Aug 2006 00:19:24 -0700, Fuzzydave <Fu*******@gmail.comwrote:

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

>
David P

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[Fuzzydave]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

round returns a float. Use
int(round('+value+', 0))
to get an integer.
Sybren

ahh of course it does, slaps own forehead sorted
thanks :)

David P

[Cameron Laird]

In article <ma***************************************@python. org>,
Tim Leslie <ti********@gmail.comwrote:

>On 16 Aug 2006 00:19:24 -0700, Fuzzydave <Fu*******@gmail.comwrote:

>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