median.md

title	type	language	tags	cover	dateModified
Median	snippet	python	math	little-bird	2020-11-02

Finds the median of a list of numbers.

• Sort the numbers of the list using list.sort().
• Find the median, which is either the middle element of the list if the list length is odd or the average of the two middle elements if the list length is even.
• statistics.median() provides similar functionality to this snippet.

def median(list):
  list.sort()
  list_length = len(list)
  if list_length % 2 == 0:
    return (list[int(list_length / 2) - 1] + list[int(list_length / 2)]) / 2
  return float(list[int(list_length / 2)])

median([1, 2, 3]) # 2.0
median([1, 2, 3, 4]) # 2.5