Hello Alan, dear list members,
Alan Gauld wrote:
The solution you have already seen - use string.split(',') to separate
the string into substrings and then convert each substring to an
integer.
This I have now done by using eval(). But now I wonder whether that is
actually clever because it is supposed to be similarly problematic as
the input() function in terms of security. Alternatively I could use
int() -- would that be the way forward?
Here is the code:
def main():
import string
print "This program takes the average of numbers you supply!!"
amount = raw_input("How many numbers do you want me to work with? ")
print "You want me to take the average of", amount, "numbers."
numbers = raw_input("Please type the numbers, separated by commas: ")
print "You want to know the average of the numbers:", numbers
add = 0
for numStr in string.split(numbers, ","):
convNum = eval(numStr) # convert digit string to a number
add = add + convNum # add number to variable 'add'
print "The sum of your numbers is:", add
average = add / float(amount)
print "Therefore the average of your numbers is", average
main()
Many thanks,
David
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