struggling with these problems

[su29090]

1.Given that worst_offenders has been defined as a list with at least 6 elements, write a statement that defines lesser_offenders to be a new list that contains all the elements from index 5 of worst_offenders and beyond. Do not modify worst_offenders .

I tried this but it didn't work:

lesser_offenders = worst_offenders[5:6]

2.Given a variable temps that refers to a list, all of whose elements refer to values of type float , representing temperature data, compute the average temperature and assign it to a variable named avg_temp . Besides temps and avg_temp , you may use two other variables -- k and total .


I'm not sure about this one but this is what I have:

for k in range(len(temps)):
total += temps[k]

avg_temp = total / len(temps)

3.Associate the sum of the non-negative values in the list numbers with the variable sum .

is it this:

for numbers in sum:
if sum +=?

I'm confused at #3 the most

i'm not doing it in python 3.2.3 it's called Myprogramminglab.

 

[MRAB]

1.Given that worst_offenders has been defined as a list with at least 6 elements, write a statement that defines lesser_offenders to be a new list that contains all the elements from index 5 of worst_offenders and beyond. Do not modify worst_offenders .

I tried this but it didn't work:

lesser_offenders = worst_offenders[5:6]

Python uses half-open ranges (and counts from 0), which means that the
start index is included and the end index is excluded.

Therefore, worst_offenders[5:6] means the slice from index 5 up to, but
excluding, index 6; in other words, an empty list.

The question says "and beyond"; in Python you can just omit the end
index to indicate everything up to the end.

2.Given a variable temps that refers to a list, all of whose elements refer to values of type float , representing temperature data, compute the average temperature and assign it to a variable named avg_temp . Besides temps and avg_temp , you may use two other variables -- k and total .


I'm not sure about this one but this is what I have:

for k in range(len(temps)):
total += temps[k]

avg_temp = total / len(temps)

You didn't set the initial value of total, which is 0.

3.Associate the sum of the non-negative values in the list numbers with the variable sum .

is it this:

for numbers in sum:
if sum +=?

I'm confused at #3 the most

Well, that's not valid Python.

What you want to do is to add each number from the list to the sum only
if it's non-negative, i.e. greater than or equal to 0.

i'm not doing it in python 3.2.3 it's called Myprogramminglab.

Have a look at Dive Into Python:
http://www.diveintopython.net/

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Python uses half-open ranges (and counts from 0), which means that the
start index is included and the end index is excluded.

Therefore, worst_offenders[5:6] means the slice from index 5 up to, but
excluding, index 6; in other words, an empty list.

Er, no. It's a one-element list: index 5 is included, index 6 is excluded.

py> L = list("abcdefgh")
py> L[5:6]
['f']