Python Script Calculating Average

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Let's do this: if you have another question, comment every line of this snippet with what you think is doing first.

#!/usr/bin/python

# This is an example intended as a guide only and not as a complete solution

teams = {}
with open("test") as f:
    for line in f:
        lname, fname, team = line.rstrip('\n').split(',')[:3]
        if team in teams:
            teams[team].append(" ".join([fname, lname]))
        else:
            teams[team] = [" ".join([fname, lname])]

team_names = "\n".join(sorted(teams))
while True:

    print "=" * len("team names")
    print "Team Names"
    print "=" * len("team names")
    print team_names

    selection = raw_input("Select a team from above list or press q: ")

    if selection == 'q':
        break

    if selection in teams:
        print "Team " + selection + " has the following players:"
        print ", ".join(teams[selection])
    else:
        print "Team " + selection + " not found"
22

This really helps so much. I completely understand it and how the syntax works now. Thank you so much again!

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Sorry, to bring this up again, but I just thought of something that I can add to this for practice. After the user selects the team and the players show up, how would I allow the user to select one of those players to report their statistics. I was thinking about storing each part of the line as a separate statistic, but was not sure how go from the first selection menu to the next.