Richard Dillon wrote:
> I apologize in advance - This is my third week using Python (3.4.1 on a
> Mac)
>
> I need to read a text file, convert the values into numbers and calculate
> a total. The total I get doesn't match the values entered in the file.
>
> def main():
> total = 0
> infile = open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/numbers.txt', 'r')
> # read first record
> line = infile.readline()
> a = float(line)
> # read rest of records
> while line != '':
> total = total + a
> line = infile.readline()
> infile.close()
> print(total)
>
> main()
Hint: look at the while loop. You never set `a` to a new value, you just
keep adding the value found in the first line.
PS: Once you have fixed this try rewriting your code with a for loop
...
for line in infile:
...
This is the idiomatic way in Python and will also simplify your code.
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