python 多个列表求平均_对Python中两个配对列表中的重复值求平均值

in my code I obtain two different lists from different sources, but I know they are in the same order. The first list ("names") contains a list of keys strings, while the second ("result_values") is a series of floats. I need to make the pair unique, but I can't use a dictionary as only the last value inserted would be kept: instead, I need to make an average (arithmetic mean) of the values that have a duplicate key.

Example of the wanted results:

names = ["pears", "apples", "pears", "bananas", "pears"]

result_values = [2, 1, 4, 8, 6] # ints here but it's the same conceptually

combined_result = average_duplicates(names, result_values)

print combined_result

{"pears": 4, "apples": 1, "bananas": 8}

My only ideas involve multiple iterations and so far have been ugly... is there an elegant solution to this problem?

解决方案

I would use a dictionary anyways

averages = {}

counts = {}

for name, value in zip(names, result_values):

if name in averages:

averages[name] += value

counts[name] += 1

else:

averages[name] = value

counts[name] = 1

for name in averages:

averages[name] = averages[name]/float(counts[name])

If you're concerned with large lists, then I would replace zip with izip from itertools.