round numbers in an array without importing Numeric or Math? - SOLVED, sort of

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> writes:

> ... or if you prefer the functional approach (using map)...
>
> roundToInt = lambda z : int(z+0.5)
> Topamax = map( roundToInt, map( float, map(str, Topamax) ) )
>
> (Python also has a built-in round() function, but this returns floats, not
> ints - if that is okay, then just delete the lambda definition, and replace
> roundToInt with round.)

Your roundToInt behaves differently from round for negative numbers:

>>> roundToInt(-0.6)
0
>>> int(round(-0.6))
-1

   Bernhard

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