{"id":28217,"date":"2024-03-16T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-calculate-the-average-using-the-average-function-in-python\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:55:12","slug":"how-to-calculate-the-average-using-the-average-function-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-calculate-the-average-using-the-average-function-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"How to calculate the average using the average function in Python?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Python, you can use the built-in functions sum() and len() to calculate the total sum and number of elements in a list, and then divide them to get the average.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example code using the average() function to calculate the mean.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">def<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">average<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-params\">lst<\/span>):\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sum<\/span>(lst) \/ <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">len<\/span>(lst)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u6d4b\u8bd5<\/span>\r\nnumbers = [<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">4<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>]\r\navg = average(numbers)\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\u5e73\u5747\u503c\u4e3a:\"<\/span>, avg)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Output the results:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>\u5e73\u5747\u503c\u4e3a: 3.0\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, the average() function takes a list as a parameter, calculates the total sum of the list using the sum() function, then calculates the length of the list using the len() function. 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