On 16/9/2013 19:33, William Bryant wrote: > Hey I am new to python so go easy, but I wanted to know how to make a program > that calculates the maen. > > List = [15, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 40] > def mean(): > global themean, thesum > for i in List: > thecount = List.count(i) > thesum = sum(List) > themean = thesum / thecount > > Why doesn't this work?
Besides all the other comments, you also neglected calling this function. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list