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

Why would you use reduce() for this when Python has a perfectly cromulent sum() function?

print sum(l) / float(len(l))

(The float() is necessary to force Python to do a floating-point division.)