对于Python 3.4+，使用新的统计模块中的mean()来计算平均值:

from statistics import mean
xs = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]
mean(xs)

l = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]

l = map(float,l)
print '%.2f' %(sum(l)/len(l))

我想补充另一种方法

import itertools,operator
list(itertools.accumulate(l,operator.add)).pop(-1) / len(l)

为了使用reduce来获取运行平均值，您需要跟踪到目前为止所看到的元素总数。因为它不是列表中的一个普通元素，所以还必须向reduce传递一个要折叠成的额外参数。

>>> l = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]
>>> running_average = reduce(lambda aggr, elem: (aggr[0] + elem, aggr[1]+1), l, (0.0,0))
>>> running_average[0]
(181.0, 9)
>>> running_average[0]/running_average[1]
20.111111111111111

如果你想要的不仅仅是平均值(又名平均)，你可以看看scipy的统计:

from scipy import stats
l = [15, 18, 2, 36, 12, 78, 5, 6, 9]
print(stats.describe(l))

# DescribeResult(nobs=9, minmax=(2, 78), mean=20.11111111111111, 
# variance=572.3611111111111, skewness=1.7791785448425341, 
# kurtosis=1.9422716419666397)

numbers = [0,1,2,3]

numbers[0] = input("Please enter a number")

numbers[1] = input("Please enter a second number")

numbers[2] = input("Please enter a third number")

numbers[3] = input("Please enter a fourth number")

print (numbers)

print ("Finding the Avarage")

avarage = int(numbers[0]) + int(numbers[1]) + int(numbers[2]) + int(numbers [3]) / 4

print (avarage)