Hi so I am making a bit of code to extract a bit of numbers data from a
file and then find the average of that data, however while I can get the
code to extract each specific piece of data I need, I can't seem to get the
numbers to add separately so I can get a proper average. My sum1 variable
seems to only take the last bit of data entered. I was just wondering if
anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, the course I'm following hadn't started
using regex (or even proper lists) at this point, so there must be a way to
do it without. here's the code. the average of the data should be 0.6789 or
something, but I get 0.0334343 or something.
count=0
lst=list()
fname='mbox-short.txt'
fhand=open(fname)
for line in fhand:
if line.startswith('X-DSPAM-Confidence:'):
count=count+1
colpos=line.find(':')
zpos=line.find('0',colpos)
num=float(line[zpos:50])
sum1=0+num
avg=float(sum1)/int(count)
print 'Count-', count,'--', 'Average-', avg
Any help at all is appreciated, and thanks in advance.
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