Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 21:03 CEST schreef Peter Otten:
>> I was judging from the look of your MovingAverage. >> >> I don't like the interface, it really should take an iterable so >> that you can write >> >>>>> list(moving_average([1,2,3], 2)) >> [1.5, 2.5] > > I should probably document it better. The idea is that you do not have > the data yet. At certain intervals data is acquired and at that moment > you want the moving average with the new data. But it would not hurt > to have the possibility to feed it a list of values, beside single > value. Something to better the function. Thanks. With that explanation and especially Ian's motivational excursion it makes more sense. My conclusion "ah newbie, doesn't know/shuns iterator protocol" may be wrong. However, it may be better to follow Ian's example and decouple adding a new value and reading the current average. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
