avg() function

[Adolfo-GM]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

A new avg() function

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
average = avg(numbers)  # Returns 3.0

It could handle edge cases like empty iterables by raising a ValueError or returning None, and support optional weights for weighted averages.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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[picnixz]

We already have this in statistics.mean.