function that accepts any amount of arguments?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>  Ken wrote:
> > "Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
>  [...]
> >> def mean(*x):
> >>     total = 0.0
> >>     for v in x:
> >>         total += v
> >>     return v/len(x)
> >>
> > 
> >  think you want total/len(x) in return statement
> > 
>  Yes indeed, how glad I am I wrote "untested". I clearly wasn't pair 
>  programming when I wrote this post ;-)

Posting to comp.lang.python is pair programming with the entire
internet ;-)


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