average

scripts/lint.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ for file in files:
     fileData = someFile.read() 
     someFile.close()
     originalCode = re.search(codeRe,fileData).group(0)
-    print(re.split(codeRe,fileData)[0])
+    #print(re.split(codeRe,fileData)[0])
     formatedCode = autopep8.fix_code(re.split(codeRe,fileData)[1])
     fileToSave = fileData.replace(originalCode,('```python \n'+formatedCode+'\n```'))
     someFile = open("snippets/"+file,'w')

snippets/average.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+### average
+
+:information_source: Already implemented via `statistics.mean`. `statistics.mean` takes an array as an argument whereas this function takes variadic arguments.
+
+Returns the average of two or more numbers.
+
+Takes the sum of all the `args` and divides it by `len(args)`. The secind argument `0.0` in sum is to handle floating point division in `python2`.
+
+```python 
+
+
+def average(*args):
+    return sum(args, 0.0) / len(args)
+
+```
+
+``` python
+average(*[1, 2, 3]) # 2.0
+average(1, 2, 3) # 2.0
+```