In this project I get the time's people enter a queue.

queue.append(time.time())

When someone leaves I remove the last element from the list.

queue.pop(0)

I am trying to calculate the average people per minute that enter and leave (2 seperate data).

This is an example of 5 people in the queue:

[1735671309.570244, 1735671310.7724044, 1735671312.1758883, 1735671313.3797104, 1735671314.3440118]

I would like help with this not per se with only code but I would love to know how to calculate this.

解决方案

To calculate the average number of people entering and leaving a queue per minute, follow these steps:

When a person enters, append their timestamp:

queue.append(time.time())

When a person leaves, record the exit time:

exit_time = time.time()
# Store exit times in a separate list if needed

Calculate Average Entries Per Minute

• Calculate Time Span:

  total_time = (queue[-1] - queue[0]) / 60  # Total time in minutes
  

• Count Entries:

  entries_count = len(queue)  # Total entries
  avg_entries_per_minute = entries_count / total_time
  

Count Exits (if you have a list of exit times):

exits_count = len(exit_times)  # Total exits
avg_exits_per_minute = exits_count / total_time

This will give you the average number of people entering and leaving the queue per minute.