On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:21:30 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote: >> Your variable names need a bit more thought >> >>> def average(bin): >> >> What is a "bin"? Maybe you shoulc have called this a "lst" eh? > > "Bin" is a standard English world. You know, like "rubbish bin" or > "recycling bin".
Or my first thought: stock location. Inventory software often doesn't care whether your physical stock is organized by shelf, box, warehouse, planet, or secret-space-on-Firefly-class-ship; just number each location, and that's the bin number. (And no, that isn't like "PIN number".) It's then quite logical to want various stats to be per-bin, which would lead exactly to the OP's problem - including the odd notation of input data, all too likely in a real-world scenario. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
