On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:24:50 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:10:39 -0400, "Eric V. Smith" <eric@trueblade.com> wrote:
On 08/15/2013 01:58 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info <mailto:steve@pearwood.info>> wrote:
- Each scheme ended up needing to be a separate function, for ease of both implementation and testing. So I had four private median functions, which I put inside a class to act as namespace and avoid polluting the main namespace. Then I needed a "master function" to select which of the methods should be called, with all the additional testing and documentation that entailed.
That's just an implementation issue, though, and sounds like a minor inconvenience to the implementor rather than anything serious; I don't think that that should dictate the API that's used.
- The API doesn't really feel very Pythonic to me. For example, we write:
And I guess this is subjective: conversely, the API you're proposing doesn't feel Pythonic to me. :-) I'd like the hear the opinion of other python-dev readers.
I agree with Mark: the proposed median, median.low, etc., doesn't feel right. Is there any example of doing this in the stdlib? I suggest just median(), median_low(), etc.
I too prefer the median_low naming rather than median.low. I'm not sure I can articulate why, but certainly the fact that that latter isn't used anywhere else in the stdlib that I can think of is probably a lot of it :)
Count me in the Agreement Car, with Mark and RDM. Regards Antoine.