Question

I’ve read the following pages:

python decimals – rounding to nearest whole dollar (no cents) – with ROUND_HALF_UP

http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html

I have the following code:

total_num = Decimal(str(total/10))
total_num.quantize(Decimal('1'), rounding=ROUND_UP)

But its always rounding down? So if I have 221, I want it to return 23. Right now I’m getting 22. Is there something I’m misunderstanding regarding this?

[EDIT]

I changed it to the following: total_num = int(math.ceil(float(total)/10))

I needed an int to continue with the for loop that has a range.

Answer 1

Can’t you use math.ceil? It will do the necessary thing if you are using a float division. Currently you are doing an integer division.