working out the average within a nested list

[PythonB15]

Hi all,

another question....

I have a data structure which consists of a game players name and their scores, I have use lists within lists (2D):

results = [["Ben", 15, 18,25], ["George", 25, 35, 85], ["Evie", 2, 54, 84]]

What I want to do is work out the average for each player and then sort by the highest average score.

any idea?

Thanks in advance

[dwblas]

Calculate it for each item in the list and create a 2nd list with the average as the first sub-item.

test_list=[[20, "Ben", 15, 18,25], [50, "George", 25, 35, 85], [19, "Evie", 2, 54, 84]]
test_list.sort
print test_list 

[computerfox]

#!/bin/python
results = [["Ben", 15, 18,25], ["George", 25, 35, 85], ["Evie", 2, 54, 84]];
i=0;
while i < len(results):
 j=1;
 scores=[];
 while j < 4:
  scores.append(results[i][j]);
  j+=1;
 scores.sort();
 print results[i][0]+": "+str(scores[2])+","+str(scores[1])+","+str(scores[0]);
 i+=1;
 

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[PythonB15]

dwblas, you said calculate it for each item, how would you actually do this in python?

computerfox, thanks for the solution is this the most effective way to get an average in Python?

[computerfox]

The scores that you gave, are those the scores and you want to get the average for each player?
For example, for Ben, 15+18+25/3=19.33 .

In that case, it should be:

#!/bin/python
results = [["Ben", 15, 18,25], ["George", 25, 35, 85], ["Evie", 2, 54, 84]];
i=0;
while i < len(results):
 j=1;
 scores=[];
 while j < 4:
  scores.append(results[i][j]);
  j+=1;
 avg=float(sum(scores))/float(len(scores));
 print results[i][0]+": "+str(avg);
 i+=1;
 

http://safe.abelgancsos.com/codepost...ect.php?id=384

I'm not aware of any built in function in Python that calculates the average so, yes, I believe this is the way it should be done. Best case, this has a Big O of n^2, which is definitely not nice, but I've seen much worse algorithms.