Quick question.....

[Narsil]

I have a list, which consists of just numbers.

Is there a command that will allow me to total up these numbers and get an average?

Say for example, the list looks thus:

numberlist = [10, 2, 5, 7, 3, 46, 4, 5, 87, 5]

How would I get the total, and how would I get the average?

Thanks in advance

TomN

[Irmen de Jong]

Re: Quick question.....

Narsil wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a list, which consists of just numbers.
>
> Is there a command that will allow me to total up these numbers and get an average?
>
> Say for example, the list looks thus:
>
> numberlist = [10, 2, 5, 7, 3, 46, 4, 5, 87, 5]
>
> How would I get the total, and how would I get the average?[/color]

You could have guessed?
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> numberlist=[10, 2, 5, 7, 3, 46, 4, 5, 87, 5]
>>> print sum(numberlist)[/color][/color][/color]
174[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print sum(numberlist)/len(numberlist) # watch out, integer result[/color][/color][/color]
17[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print float(sum(numbe rlist))/len(numberlist) # force float result[/color][/color][/color]
17.4


--Irmen