Can I make a list of printed values, average them, and tweet/email the result?

[ClickOnRun]

I'm building a Raspberry Pi soil moisture monitor and I've gotten to a point where I know what I want it to do, but I don't know where to go from where I am. I've built the hardware, and have simple code to poll the sensor at whatever interval I desire, and it prints a value. What I would like is to be able to poll the sensor every hour, average those values, and tweet or email that daily average at a specified time, but I don't know how to do this. Here's what I have so far.

import time
     
    from board import SCL, SDA
    import busio
     
    from adafruit_seesaw.seesaw import Seesaw
     
    i2c_bus = busio.I2C(SCL, SDA)
     
    ss = Seesaw(i2c_bus, addr=0x36)
     
    while True:
        # read moisture level through capacitive touch pad
        touch = ss.moisture_read()
     
        # read temperature from the temperature sensor
        temp = ss.get_temp()
     
        print("  moisture: " + str(touch))
        time.sleep(3600)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Like I said, I'm brand new to coding in general, and I know I have a lot to learn, but I don't know where to go to learn it so I thought I'd start here. Sorry if this is the wrong place or something.

[dwblas]

What I would like is to be able to poll the sensor every hour, average those values

Store the results in a list of lists or dictionary, and average from the start and end time of your choice.

[ClickOnRun]

Store the results in a list of lists or dictionary, and average from the start and end time of your choice.

This is a great start, thank you very much! At least I know what to look for. I'm off to learn how to do those things now!