Is there a built-in or standard library method in Python to calculate the arithmetic mean (one type of average) of a list of numbers?
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Answer
I am not aware of anything in the standard library. However, you could use something like:
def mean(numbers): return float(sum(numbers)) / max(len(numbers), 1) >>> mean([1,2,3,4]) 2.5 >>> mean([]) 0.0
In numpy, there’s numpy.mean()
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