I'm trying to unpack a list of 5 floats from a list read from a file and python is telling me 5 variables are too many for the string.split statement. Anyone have any other idea's? NOTE: the only reason I convert it to a float instead of just leaving it as a string in the loop is because I have to have it printed out as a float besides the names and then the average displayed underneath
thx #read in data line by line for line in infile: mylist = string.split(line) firstName[counter] = mylist[0] lastName[counter] = mylist[1] grades[counter] = float(mylist[2]) print firstName[counter], lastName[counter],":","\t\t",grades[counter] #increment counter counter = counter + 1 #calculates and prints average score grades = str(grades) num1, num2, num3, num4, num5 = string.split(grades,",") average = float(num1 + num2 + num3 + num4 + num5) / 5 print print "Average:" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list