[Tutor] scaling values

[Bob Gailer]

kevin parks wrote:
> i have various functions (that i didn't write) that put out data in 
> lists of various types. But some functions (which i didn't write) that 
> expect the data to be scaled, sometimes 0-1 sometimes 1-2, sometimes 
> 0-127..., sometimes 0 - 32768... gosh you name it. In other words i 
> have a bunch of black boxes that don't speak the same language .... is 
> there a scaling function in python (or numeric or scipy) that can scale 
> a list of values to a high precision?
>   
Perhaps someone on this list knows what you want, but I don't. What is 
"scaling"? What does foo look like?
> x = [13, 71, 120, 88, 82, 100, 10, 65, 101, 45, 26]
>
> foo = scale(x, 0, 1.0)
>
> and get that list scaled 0 to 1, or if i had:
>
> x = [.12789, .982779, .19798198, .266796, .656527, .257877091]
>
> foo = scale(x, 0, 127)
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