[Tutor] Hi, First question

[Alexander]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Patrick Williams <pdw0005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Please include the "mbox-short.txt" file. Also you should include the
output of your code (copy and paste it).


-- 
Alexander
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