Question:

def sma(list1,n):

"""Returns simple moving average of a list of numbers in size n"""

count = 0

result = [0]*(len(list1)-n+1)

for item in range(len(result)):

result[count] = arithmetic_mean(list1[count:count+n])

count += 1

print count

return result

why is this code not working? (python)  I dont think the for loop is going through because counter never goes off 1.

For example, sma([5, 2, 8, 3, 7, 4], 3) should return [5, 4.3333333, 6, 4.666667], which consists of four averages: (5+2+8)/3, (2+8+3)/3, (8+3+7)/3, and (3+7+4)/3. Note that if the length of the input list is less than or equal to n, then the result list contains just one number, the list's mean.