The sum of numbers in a line from a file

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:16 PM,  <kjakupak at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I've got is
> def stu_scores():
>     lines = []
>     with open("file.txt") as f:
>         lines.extend(f.readlines())
>     return ("".join(lines[11:]))

This returns a string, not a list.  Moreover, lines.extend() is
useless. Replace this with:

def stu_scores():
    with open("file.txt") as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
    return lines[11:]

> scores = stu_scores()
> for line in scores:

`for` operating on strings iterates over each character.

>     fields = line.split()

Splitting one character will turn it into a list containing itself, or
nothing if it was whitespace.

>     name = fields[0]

This is not what you want it to be — it’s only a single letter.

>     sum1 = int(fields[4]) + int(fields[5]) + int(fields[6])

Thus it fails here, because ['n'] has just one item, and not nine.

>     sum2 = int(fields[7]) + int(fields[8])
>     average1 = sum1 / 3.0
>     average2 = sum2 / 2.0
>     print ("%s %f %f %") (name, average1, average2)
>
> It says that the list index is out of range on the sum1 line. I need stu_scores because the table from above starts on line 11.
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