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Overcoming ZeroDivisionError: division by zero Error
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In the data set I have 5 such lists (all zero values).

Is there a way I can eliminate this error in such cases? I could simply remove the lists, but don't want to alter the true result.

from ast import literal_eval
 
with open("C:\Dave\data.txt") as f :
    for line in f :
        name, values = line.split(' = ')
        values = literal_eval(values)

print(f" District: {name}")

print(f"Hal received {values[3]} votes AVG: -  {values[3]/sum(values):.2%}).")
District: p3635
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python37-32/read.py", line 34, in <module>
print(f"Robert received {values[3]} votes AVG: - {values[3]/sum(values):.2%}).")
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

The data file is (fails when it hits p3635):

p3624 = [454, 434, 175, 178, 82, 92, 6]
p3635 = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
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Overcoming ZeroDivisionError: division by zero Error - by dgrunwal - Jun-11-2020, 01:58 PM

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