I have a function for calculating the standard deviation of a list. I was wanting to create this as an object and inherit from pythons list object.
I'm pretty new to the whole OOP concept, can someone please have a look at my code to see why it prints an address rather than a value and where I'm messing this OOP thing up.
Thanks
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- class StandardDev(list):
- def __init__(self, theList):
- self.theList = theList
- def standardDev(self):
- import math
- sums = 0
- n = len(self)
- #Calculate the mean average
- ma = (1/float(n))*sum(self)
- for i, j in enumerate(self):
- sums += ((self[i]-ma)**2)
- return round(math.sqrt((1/float(n))*(sums)),2)
- a = (5,6,8,9)
- b = StandardDev(a)
- print b.standardDev