Python List with Total and Average

[mcnhscc39]

This is not homework. I was practicing python lists and wanted to total and average the simple list that I wrote. The code runs with no errors but it does not total or average at the end of the program. Should I have used a different type of loop when creating the list, like While instead of For? I like using the for statement as opposed to While when creating the list because it seems to be less code to write. Here's what I have.

#Create List with user input
accountBalance = [0] * 5
for bal in accountBalance:
    bal = float(input("Enter"))

#Procces list for total and average
total = 0
for acct in accountBalance:
    total = total + acct

average = total / len(accountBalance)
print("Total: ", total)
print("Average: ", round(average, 2))

[ichabod801]

In for bal in accountBalance:, bal is independent of accoutBalance, so changing bal does not change accountBalance. So at the end, all the values are still 0. I would redo the first loop as:

accountBalance = []
for value in range(5):
    accountBalance.append(float(input('Enter value: ')))

[mcnhscc39]

In for bal in accountBalance:, bal is independent of accoutBalance, so changing bal does not change accountBalance. So at the end, all the values are still 0. I would redo the first loop as:

accountBalance = []
for value in range(5):
    accountBalance.append(float(input('Enter value: ')))

I realized that the way I wrote it, I created the list and then created a separate loop to total the list. However, since the list was already created in the previous loop, there was nothing to total up. I rewrote it this way before seeing your comment, though yours would obviously work as well, this way worked just fine for the simple tasks I was asking. For more complicated lists and processing I think I should use your method.

#Create List with user input
accountBalance = [0] * 5
total = 0
for bal in accountBalance:
    bal = float(input("Enter"))
    total += bal

#Procces list for total and average


average = total / len(accountBalance)
print("Total: ", total)
print("Average: ", round(average, 2))

[DeaD_EyE]

Have you seen this module: statistics