How to Calculate NPV?

[Saber Ayoub Chelaghma]

On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 3:59:10 PM UTC+2, ryguy7272 wrote:
> I am using Spyder Python 2.7.  I'm running this sample code.
> 
> import scipy as sp
> cashflows=[50,40,20,10,50]
> npv=sp.npv(0.1,cashflows)
> round(npv,2)
> 
> 
> Now, I'm trying to get the NPV, and I don't see any obvious way to get it.  
> The author of the book that I'm reading gets 144.56.  I think that's wrong, but I don't know for sure, as Python won't do any calculation at all.  It's easy to enter code and run it, but I can't tell how to get Python to actually DO the calculation.
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


Hi,
Just do at the end of your scrip:
print(npv)

Regards