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]

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?

You could have guessed?

>>> numberlist=[10, 2, 5, 7, 3, 46, 4, 5, 87, 5]
>>> print sum(numberlist) 174
>>> print sum(numberlist)/len(numberlist) # watch out, integer result 17
>>> print float(sum(numberlist))/len(numberlist) # force float result

17.4


--Irmen