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.

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#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:

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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:

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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.

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#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