Python2.7-: Storing user input values input in a list

Question

I am new to python and came around a scenario explained below-:

This is one from the .pdf I am referring to learn. Would be great if anyone could guide or share some other resources.

A program which repeatedly reads numbers until the user enters “done”. Once “done” is entered, print out the total, count, and average of the numbers. If the user enters anything other than a number, detect their mistake using try and except and print an error message and skip to the next number.

Enter a number: 4
Enter a number: 5
Enter a number: bad data
Invalid input
Enter a number: 7
Enter a number: done

16 3 5.333333333333333*

I am unable to store the values into list.

Tried going with this logic-:

while True:
    line = input('Enter Number-: ')
    if type(line) == int():
        continue
    if line == 'done':
        break
    print(line)
print('Done!')

Just need to know how to store into lists without using spaces or commas, The user should be able to enter the value as shown in example above and those should get stored in a list.

Thanks in advance.

@Foon - I was following the logic used here py4e.com/code3/copytildone2.py — Gatik Vij
– Gatik Vij, Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 13:23
I tried using a somewhat same approach but I could only print the last item entered... Here is what I tried...-: while True: line = input('Enter Number-: ') if type(line) == int(): continue if line == 'done': break print(line) print('Done!') — Gatik Vij
– Gatik Vij, Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 13:31
@JacquesdeHooge-: apologies for the language used in question. It is not an assignment rather one of the exercises i encountered from a book i am learning. would be great if you could help. — Gatik Vij
– Gatik Vij, Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 13:32

Status · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-03 04:30:49Z

In Python 2.7, input will evalulate any entry and will fail if the input is not a correct Python type to begin with. It's better to use raw_input here as any entry will be considered a string. If you move to Python 3, raw_input was removed and input acts how raw_input did. So your example expects you to give it '45' or 'done' instead of 45 or done.

But the reason you're unable to store any values into a list is because you're not adding them to a list in the first place. But since we've also switched to raw_input, we don't know if the entry is a valid number or not. So we need to try to convert it to a number and if it isn't one, then check to see if it's the keyword telling the code to stop.

values = []  # make an empty list
while True:
    line = raw_input('Enter Number-: ')  # all entries here are considered strings
    try:
        num = int(line)  # convert to an integer
        values.append(num)  # add to list
        continue  # return to input query
    except:  # int(line) threw an error, so not a valid number input
        if line == 'done':  # check if should stop
            break  # get out of loop
        else:  # anything else
            print 'bad data, invalid input'
            continue  # return to input query

print 'Done!\n'     
print 'total:', sum(values)
print 'count:', len(values)
print 'average:', sum(values) / float(len(values))

If you're entering more than just integers, you may wish to change num = int(line) to num = float(line) to handle decimal inputs, as int only accepts integers.

Enter Number-: 4
Enter Number-: 5
Enter Number-: 
bad data, invalid input
Enter Number-: 7
Enter Number-: done
Done!

total: 16
count: 3
average: 5.33333333333

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