#!/usr/bin/python3 import sys import numpy if len(sys.argv) != 2 : sys.exit("Expected file name as only argument") try: with open(sys.argv[1]) as f: content = f.readlines() content = [x.strip() for x in content] content = [float(x) for x in content] # expect floating-point strings content.remove(max(content)) # need at least 4 data values because content.remove(min(content)) # the max and min values are removed med = numpy.median(content) avg = numpy.mean (content) std = numpy.std (content) print("median {0:.1f} avg {1:.1f} stddev {2:.1f}".format( med, avg, std )) except IOError as e: sys.exit(e.strerror)