(Un)Happily we have the keyword "as" already. They can make their own aliases. On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 11:46 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:08:57PM -0500, David Mertz wrote:
from statistics import stdev as σ σ([5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 7]) 1.4719601443879744
:-)
You know what you've done now, don't you? Somebody is going to propose a whole series of aliased names for statistics and math modules:
Σ = sum σ = statistics.stdev μ = statistics.mean Π = math.prod γ = math.gamma
etc.
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