#!/usr/bin/env python from agate.aggregations.base import Aggregation from agate.aggregations.has_nulls import HasNulls from agate.aggregations.percentiles import Percentiles from agate.data_types import Number from agate.exceptions import DataTypeError from agate.warns import warn_null_calculation class Median(Aggregation): """ Calculate the median of a column. Median is equivalent to the 50th percentile. See :class:`Percentiles` for implementation details. :param column_name: The name of a column containing :class:`.Number` data. """ def __init__(self, column_name): self._column_name = column_name self._percentiles = Percentiles(column_name) def get_aggregate_data_type(self, table): return Number() def validate(self, table): column = table.columns[self._column_name] if not isinstance(column.data_type, Number): raise DataTypeError('Median can only be applied to columns containing Number data.') has_nulls = HasNulls(self._column_name).run(table) if has_nulls: warn_null_calculation(self, column) def run(self, table): percentiles = self._percentiles.run(table) return percentiles[50]