Hi all,
I'm looking for feedback on the below vote weighting algorithm which
includes sample input. This is written in Python3.
def weight(votes):
"""
Takes a list of tuples in the form of '(vote %, weight)' where vote %
is the
rating that a user gave and weight is the number of votes it counts as.
Returns the average score based on votes and vote weight.
"""
sum_of_votes = 0
num_of_votes = 0
for vote, weight in votes:
sum_of_votes += vote * weight
num_of_votes += weight
score = sum_of_votes/num_of_votes
return score
if __name__ == '__main__':
votes = [(72, 4), (96, 3), (48, 2), (53, 1), (26, 4), (31, 3), (68, 2),
(91, 1)]
print(weight(votes))
Specifically, I'm wondering if this is a good algorithm for weighted
voting. Essentially a vote is weighted by the number of votes it counts as.
I realize that this is an extremely simple algorithm, but I was wondering
if anyone had suggestions on how to improve it. Thank you for your time.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
