On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, marlowe <marlowequ...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I wrote this program, but i have a feeling like there might be a more > practical way of writing it. Can someone give me an idea of how to > simplify this? Here is an example of the csv file i am using. This > program calculates the exponential moving average of the 20 day range. <snip>
> H=float(data[40][2])+float(data[41][2])+float(data[42][2])+float(data > [43][2])\ > +float(data[44][2])+float(data[45][2])+float(data[46][2])+float(data > [47][2])\ > +float(data[48][2])+float(data[49][2])+float(data[50][2])+float(data > [51][2])\ > +float(data[52][2])+float(data[53][2])+float(data[54][2])+float(data > [55][2])\ > +float(data[56][2])+float(data[57][2])+float(data[58][2])+float(data > [59][2])\ > +float(data[60][2]) H = sum(float(data[i][2]) for i in xrange(40,61)) > L=float(data[40][3])+float(data[41][3])+float(data[42][3])+float(data > [43][3])\ > +float(data[44][3])+float(data[45][3])+float(data[46][3])+float(data > [47][3])\ > +float(data[48][3])+float(data[49][3])+float(data[50][3])+float(data > [51][3])\ > +float(data[52][3])+float(data[53][3])+float(data[54][3])+float(data > [55][3])\ > +float(data[56][3])+float(data[57][3])+float(data[58][3])+float(data > [59][3])\ > +float(data[60][3]) H = sum(float(data[i][3]) for i in xrange(40,61)) Might I suggest you learn more about comprehensions and looping?: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/ http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#range http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#sum Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list