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Subject: Re: The sum of numbers in a line from a file
From: Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:35:17 -0800
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On Feb 20, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:

> kxjakkk <kjakupak@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>> Let's say I have a sample file like this:
>>=20
>> Name        1           2     3    4     5      6     7    8
>> =
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> name1    099-66-7871   A-F    Y    100    67    81    59    98
>> name2    999-88-7766   A-F    N    99   100    96    91    90
>> name3    000-00-0110    AUD        5    100    28    19    76
>> name4    398-72-3333    P/F    Y    76    84    49    69    78
>> name5    909-37-3689    A-F    Y    97    94    100    61    79
>>=20
>> For name1, I want to add together columns 4, 5, 6, and get an average =
from that, then do the same for the last two columns. I want to do this =
for every name.=20
>>=20
>> All I've got is
>> sum([int(s.strip()) for s in open('file').readlines()])
>>=20
>=20
> Don'ttrytodoitallinoneline.thatwayyouactuallymighthaveaplacetoinse
> rtsomeextralogic.
>=20
Yes.

Clearly

the

preferred

way

to

do

it

is

with

lots

of

lines

with

room

for

expandability.

Sorry Dave, couldn=92t resist. Clearly a balance between extremes is =
desirable.

(Mark, I intentionally put the blank lines in this time <grin>)

Travis Griggs
"=93Every institution tends to perish by an excess of its own basic =
principle.=94 =97 Lord Acton