How to fix 'int object is not iterable' from a function

January 7, 2022

I have a dict() like so

{'2020': [51000, 15000, 16000, 13000, 12000, 31000, 20000, 23000], '2021': [16000, 13000, 5000, 20000, 25000, 23000, 14000]}

and I want to run this function

def report(x,k):
for v in x.values():
    the_sum = sum(v)
    the_num = len(v)
for k,v in x.items():
    if the_sum % the_num == 0:
        x[k] = the_sum/the_num
    else:
        x[k] = the_sum//the_num
return x[k}

so that I can find the average of the value in the dict(), but I only got the average for ‘2020’
and I got this error for the ‘2021’

the_sum = sum(v)

TypeError: ‘int’ object is not iterable

>Solution :

I’m not sure why you’re iterating over all of the key-value pairs if you’re only trying to calculate the average for one key (as the function signature states).

If you want to compute the average value for a value, given a key and a dictionary, you can do the following:

data = {'2020': [51000, 15000, 16000, 13000, 12000, 31000, 20000, 23000], '2021': [16000, 13000, 5000, 20000, 25000, 23000, 14000]}

def report(x, k):
    return sum(x[k]) // len(x[k])
print(report(data, '2020'))