diff --git a/tools/osbuild-mpp b/tools/osbuild-mpp
index 6d5ebddd..cf74488e 100755
--- a/tools/osbuild-mpp
+++ b/tools/osbuild-mpp
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ class ManifestFile:
                 # some math that ended up converting the value to a
                 # float. Just trim it off in that case.
                 if res.endswith('.0'):
-                    res = res.strip('.0')
+                    res = res[0:-2]
                 res = int(res)
             elif res_type == "json":
                 res = json.loads(res)