On Jan 21, 4:30 pm, michael.coll-ba...@verizonwireless.com wrote: > > From: noydb > > If one has a floating number as a string, is there a spiffy way to > > round that string-number UP to the nearest 100? > > > XstrNmbr = 3579.127893 -- would want to round that to 3600. > > What's wrong with round? round( XstrNmbr, -2 ) seems to do the trick. > Or do you want to get rid of the decimal point as well? > > The information contained in this message and any attachment may be > proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work > product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or > agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify me > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all > copies and backups thereof. Thank you.
Thanks Arnaud! Michael - Nothing is wrong with round -- when I tried it initially, I was confused on the base -- seeing it from this example helped clear it up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list