grades = "90,100,70,45,76,84,93,21,36,99,100" # set up a list to hold our results results = [] # split up the grades splitgrades = grades.split(",") # iterate over all grades and examine each one for g in splitgrades: # convert each grade to an integer int_g = int(g) # add to our list results.append(int_g) # compute results print ("Average:", sum(results)/len(results)) print ("Highest:", max(results)) print ("Lowest: ", min(results)) print ("Average with lowest score dropped:", ( sum(results) - min(results) ) / (len(results)-1))