Rounding up to nearest 30 minutes in python

Question

I have the following code below.

I would like to roundup TIME to the nearest 30 minutes in the hour. For example: 12:00PM or 12:30PM and so on.

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Answer 1

>>> from dateutil.rrule import rrule, MINUTELY
>>> import datetime
>>> import bisect
>>> times = list(rrule(MINUTELY,interval=30,dtstart=datetime.date.today(),count=
48))
>>> print times[bisect.bisect(times,datetime.datetime.now())]
2015-09-22 11:00:00
>>>

Note that this solution uses the 3rd party dateutil library that can be installed with pip install dateutil... Of course, you could solve it without it... but it's easier with it.