How do I truncate a variable i Python

[anasa]

Hi,
I am new to this forum and need some help to my school project.
How can I truncate a variable?

[j.crater]

Hello, if you mean simply discarding the decimal part of a number, you can cast it to an integer:

>>> a = 3.5467
>>> int(a)
3

[anasa]

Hello, if you mean simply discarding the decimal part of a number, you can cast it to an integer:

 >>> a = 3.5467 >>> int(a) 3 

Thank you for a quick answer. But I can not make it work.
This is my result:

a = 3.5467
print(a)
int(a)
print(a)

--->
Python 3.6.1 (default, Dec 2015, 13:05:11)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux

3.5467
3.5467

What am I doing wrong.

All the best.

[nilamo]

If you want to change what the variable is referencing, you need to rebind the variable to the new value. int(a) will certainly cast a as an int, but that's a new value. Simply casting it won't change the fundamental meaning of what 3.5467 is. So to rebind the variable, do such: a = int(a)

[anasa]

Fantastic!
I seems to work.

Thank you!

My first post at this forum and problem solved after some minutes. Thank you.

[anasa]

Thank you!
It functions.
It works.