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verbal currentBOT Dec 9, 2024, 11:14 PM

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unkempt plinth Dec 9, 2024, 11:17 PM

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You need to provide more detail about your problems.

hidden monolith Dec 9, 2024, 11:18 PM

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Original post got cut because of a .py file

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The first photo is the limits, second is the prompt I'm having issues with, third is an ex of how my professor wants a similar problem coded

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#5 is the problem i need help on

hidden monolith Dec 9, 2024, 11:35 PM

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Its mainly being able to parse through the file to identify individual values associated with a name

unkempt plinth Dec 9, 2024, 11:36 PM

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Wouldn't you just read the file and ignore lines where the name column does not equal the name you're interested in?

for row in csvr:
    if row[4] != the_name:
        continue
    ... use the row ...

hidden monolith Dec 9, 2024, 11:39 PM

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I need the data associated with the Name to calculate the average

unkempt plinth Dec 9, 2024, 11:39 PM

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Yes. The above loop reads the entire file, but skips records not associated with the name.

hidden monolith Dec 9, 2024, 11:40 PM

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I see

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Let me get home and try that

unkempt plinth Dec 9, 2024, 11:41 PM

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Sure.

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So you're not really "indexing" the file, you're just scanning it and considering only the records of interest.

hidden monolith Dec 9, 2024, 11:48 PM

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Gotcha. I also need to calculate the class average for the name based on the type of class such as IT or CS

unkempt plinth Dec 10, 2024, 12:02 AM

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Sure. Just keep two tallies. Or a dict with a tally per class type, and there may be just the 2 types.

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