More elegant way to round decimals in Python? I am working with currencies, and so have been using the decimal module to rule out any floating point weirdness in the following maths.

I have to add together a number of decimal amounts, find an average of them, add ten percent, and then round it to the nearest round £. I then need to do more decimal maths with the output, so it'll need to be a decimal (or an integer) so I can play with it.  Adding the decimals has been fairly straightforward,  but doing the rest of the maths has left me with this line:

result = decimal.Decimal(round((sum_of_items / count_of_items) * decimal.Decimal(1.1), 0))


It strikes me that this isn't particularly elegant, as I'm converting the decimal average+10% to a float just to round it off, and then turning the result back into a decimal.

Am I risking any floating point weirdness with that brief conversion back to floating point? And is there any way to achieve the same effect as round using the decimal module so I don't have to go decimal->float->decimal?
I was actually unaware of the decimal module -- I've +1 your question just for that. 

Taking a quick look at the docs, Decimal is specifically designed to avoid artifacts of binary floats and work like "people" math. Because of that I would be suspicious of the conversion to float, no matter how brief. Can you use the quantize() function instead of round()? The quantize method "rounds a number to a fixed exponent. This method is useful for monetary applications that often round results to a fixed number of places" and sounds well suited to your application.