I am doing my homework and it requirers me to use a sum () and len () functions to find the mean of an input number list, when I tried to use sum () to get the sum of the list, I got an error TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'. Following is my code:
numlist = input("Enter a list of number separated by commas: ")
numlist = numlist.split(",")
s = sum(numlist)
l = len(numlist)
m = float(s/l)
print("mean:",m)
The problem is that when you read from the input, you have a list of strings. You could do something like that as your second line:
numlist = [float(x) for x in numlist]
The problem is that you have a list of strings. You need to convert them to integers before you compute the sum. For example:
numlist = numlist.split(",")
numlist = map(int, numlist)
s = sum(numlist)
...
You are adding up strings, not numbers, which is what your error message is saying.
Convert every string into its respective integer:
numlist = map(int, numlist)
And then take the average (note that I use float() differently than you do):
arithmetic_mean = float(sum(numlist)) / len(numlist)
You want to use float() before dividing, as float(1/2) = float(0) = 0.0, which isn't what you want.
An alternative would be to just make them all float in the first place:
numlist = map(float, numlist)
Split returns you an array of strings, so you need to convert these to integers before using the sum function.
You can try this.
reduce(lambda x,y:x+y, [float(x) for x in distance])
Convert the string input to a list of float values. Here is the updated code.
numlist = list(map(int,input("Enter a list of number separated by commas: ").split(',')))
l = len(numlist)
s = sum(numlist)
print("mean :",s/l)
For Python 2.7
numlist = map(int,raw_input().split(","))
s = sum(numlist)
l = len(numlist)
m = float(s/l)
print("mean:"+ str(m))
