New to python, help with my program?

[wyominggirl419]

This program is supposed to read in a list of numbers and compute the average and standard deviation.

As it is now, it returns nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

scores=raw_input('Type in scores on one line with a space between each one: ')
 
values = scores.split()
for i in range (len(values)):
    values[i] = int(values[i])
 
def average(values):
    average=sum(values)/float(len(values))
    return average
 
def standardDev(average, values):
    total = 0
    for i in values:
        total +=(average-i)**2
    standardDev= total/((len(values)-1)**.5)
    return standardDev

[Motoma]

If you take a look at your code, you will see that you have defined two functions, average and standardDev, but you never actually called them!

The code below shows you what you were missing:

def average(values):
    average=sum(values)/float(len(values))
    return average
 
def standardDev(average, values):
    total = 0
    for i in values:
        total +=(average-i)**2
    standardDev= total/((len(values)-1)**.5)
    return standardDev
 
scores=raw_input('Type in scores on one line with a space between each one: ')
 
values = scores.split()
for i in range (len(values)):
    values[i] = int(values[i])
 
av =  average(values)
sd = standardDev(av, values)
print(sd)
 

Now, to get rid of that pesky math error...