import numpy as np import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET input_filename = input("Filename: ") e = ET.parse(input_filename).getroot() arraystring = e.find('Pressure_Array').text arraystring = arraystring.replace("array([[", "") arraystring = arraystring.replace("]])", "") arraylist = arraystring.split("],[") print(len(arraylist)) l = [] for i in range(len(arraylist)): arrayvals = arraylist[i].split(",") l.append(arrayvals) array = np.zeros((len(l[0]),len(arraylist))) for row in range(len(arraylist)): for col in range(len(l[0])): array[row,col]=l[row][col] print(np.mean(array))