Finding Maximum Value in CSV File

Question

Have an assignment of finding average and maximum rainfall in file \"BoulderWeatherData.csv\". Have found the average using this code:

    rain = open(\"BoulderW         


        

Answer 1

This is my prefered way of handling this.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

rain = open("BoulderWeatherData.csv","r")

average = 0.0
total = 0
maxt = 0.0

for line in rain:
    try:
        p = float(line.split(",")[4])
        average += p
        total += 1
        maxt = max(maxt,p)
    except:
        pass

average = average / float(total)

print("Average:",average)
print("Maximum:",maxt)

This will output:

Average: 0.05465272591486193
Maximum: 1.98