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Python

Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,159 Points
Posted by Nancy Melucci
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,159 Points

Return outside of function

In the code below, the autograder ("Grok") tells me that the return is outside the function. This seems to happen no matter where I put the return statement. Any ideas?

import numpy as np
def calc_stats(list):
    sum = 0
    mean = 0
    median = 0
for line in open('data.csv'):
    row = []
    for col in line.strip().split(','):
        row.append(float(col))  
    for x in row:
        mean = np.mean(row)
        median = np.median(row)
        return [mean, median]

1 Answer

Mark Sebeck
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Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 38,304 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 38,304 Points

Your first for statement needs indented so it’s inside the function. It should line up with median.