On 25/10/16 09:09, niraj pandey wrote:
> Try this.
>
> my_string = '0,1,2,3'
> my_lst=my_string.split(",")
> leng = len(my_lst)
> b=sum(my_lst)
> avg=float(b/leng)
> print avg
It doesn't work because my_list is a list of strings and you can't sum()
strings. The loop is needed to convert the strings to numbers.
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