I would like to give some feedback about ...
"it returns a type error, saying list indices must be integers not floats. well they are..."
From: http://www.checkio.org/mission/median/solve/
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My Code:
def checkio(data):
data.sort()
if len(data) % 2 == 0:
median = ((data[len(data)/2-1] + data[len(data)/2]) / 2.0)
else:
median = data[(((len(data) - 1)) / 2)]
return median
#These "asserts" using only for self-checking and not necessary for auto-testing
if __name__ == '__main__':
assert checkio([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) == 3, "Sorted list"
assert checkio([3, 1, 2, 5, 3]) == 3, "Not sorted list"
assert checkio([1, 300, 2, 200, 1]) == 2, "It's not an average"
assert checkio([3, 6, 20, 99, 10, 15]) == 12.5, "Even length"
print("Start the long test")
assert checkio(list(range(1000000))) == 499999.5, "Long."
print("The local tests are done.")
Created at: 2014/07/14 17:22; Updated at: 2014/07/14 17:45