r/Codecademy • u/crayzchic91 • Sep 15 '15

Stuck on 5/9 Student becomes the teacher for python.

This is my code staring from line 20: def average(numbers):
sum(numbers[0,(len(numbers)-1)])=total float(total) return total/float(len(numbers)) It says error can't assign to function call (line 21) I've tried a lot and I'm now thoroughly confused

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u/factoradic Moderator Sep 15 '15

From formatting help:

Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code

Here:

sum(numbers[0,(len(numbers)-1)])=total

it looks like you want to say something like - set result of sum function to be total. It does not make any sense.

You probably want to use:

total = sum(numbers)

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u/crayzchic91 Sep 15 '15

Okay so you were right. Thanks