A thanks Tony, it worked, i initialized the variable at the top

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 3:18:06 AM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
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>> *I AM TRYING TO CALCULATE THE AVARAGE IN AMY VIEW, I ADDED A VARIABLE 
>> CALLED average TO HOLD THE RESULTS OF THE AVAERAGE CALCULATIONS BUT I KEEP 
>> GETTING THIS ERROR:<type 'exceptions.NameError'> name 'average' is not 
>> definedI DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M DOING WRONG!!!HERE IS MY CODE:{{extend 
>> 'layout.html'}}..............................<table><tr>    <th>Term</th>  
>>   <th>Subject</th>    <th>Mark Acquired</th>    <th>Total Mark</th>    
>> <th>(%) Acquired</th>    <th>Grade</th>    <th>Teacher's 
>> Comment</th></tr>{{for report in form:        
>> perc=(float(report.marks)/float(report.total))*float(100)                if 
>> perc>=75:            grade='A'        elif perc>=65:            grade='B'  
>>       elif perc>=55:            grade='C'        elif perc>=45:            
>> grade='D'#THE CALCULATION FOR AVARAGE IS DONE HERE         average+=perc*
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> You cannot increment a variable without first initializing it somewhere. 
> Before the for loop starts, you should have something like:
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> average = 0
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> More generally, I would say this is too much logic in the view. You should 
> probably calculate the grades and average in the controller (or via virtual 
> fields if reports are DAL records).
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> Also, be careful with code like report.subject.subject_name inside a loop 
> -- if that is a recursive select on a DAL record, it will generate an 
> additional database query for every single record. You might be better off 
> with a join to get all the related data in a single query.
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> Anthony
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