All language subtitles for 13. How to Find Out What Code You Need

To calculate the average of these grades we want to see if a list type has some sort of mean or average
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method that allows us to get the average of its values.
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For that we go to check with dir list.
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So list is the name that represents all lists.
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So that is the type.
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And this is an instance of that type, of the list type.
Dir list and let's have a quick look here.
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Do we have a mean or average method?
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I don't think, so so there's no methods of the list type to allow us to calculate the average of a list
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values.
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However that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist
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a mean method in Python to do that.
Mean or average
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it's not a method, but it can be a function.
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You remember the print function so print like that.
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You see that print doesn't need the dot notation to be used like for example the upper method did need
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a dot notation because upper is a method attached to the HELLO type and print is a function, it is an
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independent function that works with many types,
not only strings, not only integers, float.
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You can print anything with print.
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That's why it's not attached to a specific type.
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So where do we see a complete list of functions that we can use.
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You can do that using dir again underscore underscore built ins underscore underscore close parentheses.
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And that is
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a complete list of what you can use built in functions and also types in Python because here you also
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see like the list word that we used an str, and that's basically what Python has
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in a nutshell so these functions, and the methods of the types such as str, and least and so on.
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These are actually the built in features of Python.
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What comes with the Python installation.
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We will see later that there are also libraries made
by other people for example to process images.
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To process pixels of an image.
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Python doesn't have that because that that'd be too much to be included in the Python
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default installation so people have come up with libraries which are still Python codes and we'll look
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at that later.
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So this external Python code that you can install as an add on, as an extension will allow you to make
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more operations, but the built in Python is this basically.
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So let me see for a mean function, or an average function.
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No, it's not there.
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Okay but there is a some function.
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So what we can do is, let's say my sum, don't use sum as a variable name because you can see that sum
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is a reserved keyword.
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So sum(student_grades), that will give us the sum of these three numbers, and then we want to count how many
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items there are in that list.
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So do we have a count something there?
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Maybe not.
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Well I know that there's no count method but we have this Len.
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Which means... You can check what it means.
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So return of the number of items in a container.
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So a list is also referred to as a container.
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Let's say a length equal to Len.
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Student grades.
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And then finally we can get the mean which is my sum divided by length and printout the mean, save and
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that is the mean value of all those three numbers.