[Python-Dev] Accumulation module
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jan 14 16:06:50 EST 2004
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.
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