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+from __future__ import division
+
+
+def median(data):
+ """
+ Return the median (middle value) of numeric data, using the common
+ "mean of middle two" method. If data is empty, ValueError is raised.
+
+ Mimics the behaviour of Python3's statistics.median
+
+ >>> median([1, 3, 5])
+ 3
+ >>> median([1, 3, 5, 7])
+ 4.0
+
+ """
+ data = sorted(data)
+ n = len(data)
+ if not n:
+ raise ValueError("No median for empty data")
+ i = n // 2
+ if n % 2:
+ return data[i]
+ return (data[i - 1] + data[i]) / 2