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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Rounding a number
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:08:23 +0100
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On 30/04/2015 21:00, Thijs Engels wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015, at 21:49, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> I have this page book marked.
>> https://mkaz.com/2012/10/10/python-string-format/
>>
>> I am getting numbers from sixty thousand to two hundred thousand.
>> I would like to round them to the nearest thousand.
>> So 65,253 should read 65,000.
>> How?
>>
>> Total=2100
>> for x in range (10,35):
>>      count=1000/x
>>      print ("Foo {:7,.0f} Fighters".format(Total*count))
>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
 > round(65253, -3)
 >
 > might be what you are looking for...
 >
 >

True, but please don't top post here.  It's no problem on short threads, 
but as they get longer trying to follow when top posting is involved is 
nigh on impossible.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
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Mark Lawrence