On Wed, Jan 14, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
* What to call the module
[Aahz]
stats
There is already a stat module. Any chance of confusion?
Make it statistics, then.
The other naming issue is that some of the functions have non-statistical uses: product() is general purpose; nlargest() and nsmallest() will accept any datatype (though most of the use cases are with numbers). Are there other general purpose (non-statistical) accumulation/reduction formulas that go here?
Doesn't matter, IMO. The primary use-case for this module will be statistics; people looking for the more unusual functionality will still be likely to poke in this module for related uses. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ A: No. Q: Is top-posting okay?