Finding the average of a list

Question

I have to find the average of a list in Python. This is my code so far

l = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]
print reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, l)

Answer 1

You can use numpy.mean:

l = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]

import numpy as np
print(np.mean(l))