One program that a teacher may assign to beginning programming students would be to take a list of numbers and average them together. This recipe does just that and is designed to be easy to read and follow, showing what is possible with a few lines of Python.
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while True:
try:
string = raw_input('What numbers should I average? ')
words = string.split()
numbers = [ast.literal_eval(word) for word in words]
total = sum(numbers)
count = len(numbers)
average = 1.0 * total / count
print 'The average is', average
raw_input('Press enter to quit.')
break
except:
print 'Please only give me numbers.'
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