ZeroDivisionError: float division (baby steps)

Benjamin Niemann pink at odahoda.de
Thu Aug 19 16:05:48 EDT 2004


Artemisio wrote:
> I am a non programmer who just started with Python. So far I love it.
> 
> I would appreciate if you could help me fix this error I get taking this exercise:
> 
> count= 0
> sum= 0.0
> number= 1
> print "Enter 0 to exit the loop"
> 
> while number != 0 :
> 	number= input("Enter a number: ")
> 
> count= count + 1
> sum= sum + number
> 
> count= count -1
> print "The average is: ",sum/count
> #the error is in the above line
> 
> "ZeroDivisionError: float division"
> 
> Thank you in advance, Len
I think the two lines after input() should be indented as the belong to 
the while loop...



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