Question

Write a PYTHON program that reads a file (prompt user for the input file name) containing two columns of floating-point numbers (Use split). Print the average of each column. Use the following data forthe input file:
1   0.5
2   0.5
3   0.5
4   0.5

The output should be:
   The averages are 2.50 and 0.5.

a)   Your code with comments
b)   A screenshot of the execution

Version 3.7.2

Answer 1

filename = input('Enter file name: ')

with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    total1, total2, count = 0, 0, 0
    for line in f:
        words = line.strip().split()
        total1 += float(words[0].strip())
        total2 += float(words[1].strip())
        count += 1
    print("Averages are {} and {}".format(total1/count, total2/count))

xxixinput.txt Enter Iile name Avezages are 2.5 and o5 Process finished with exit code 0