Assuming you have a list of the # of guesses per game called numOfGuesses, here's what I'd do.
# Assume numOfGuesses = [ 4, 6, 10, 5 ]
>>> numOfGuesses = [ 4, 6, 10, 5 ]
>>> totalGuesses = 0
>>> for guess in numOfGuesses:
... totalGuesses = totalGuesses + guess
...
>>> print "Total # of guesses: %d" % ( totalGuesses )
Total # of guesses: 25
>>> print "Total # of games: %d" % ( len(numOfGuesses) )
Total # of games: 4
>>> print "Average guesses per game: %f" % ( float(totalGuesses) / float(len(numOfGuesses)) )
Average guesses per game: 6.250000
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Hope that helps.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:57:09PM +0100, valhalla wrote:
> Hello Pythonites
>
> This may be a no-brainer, but after looking at several docs on lists I cannot
> get my head around the proper way of doing this, so I would appreciate some
> help.
>
> I'm working on a pretty basic guessing game, but wanted to keep a tally of the
> number of times it takes the player to guess the correct number and then to
> average that tally out over the number of games, to yield an output along the
> lines of: "You took an average of 5 guesses", or whatever.
> The inputs would be:
> (a) the number of guesses per game which I have appended to a list
> (b) the total number of games played
> and the output
> (a) divided by (b) == (c) average
>
> I *think* what I am after is a way of adding the contents of a list and then
> dividing that total to yield an average - but I'm not sure (i) whether one
> can do those operations with lists and if so, how or (ii) if not, what the
> next best thing would be, given that there has to be a data structure to
> catch the number of guesses per game.
>
> Any ideas/clues?
>
> Cheers
>
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