[Python-Dev] PEP 450 adding statistics module

[Mark Dickinson]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at 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.

Thanks for the detailed replies.  Would it be possible to put some of this
reasoning into the PEP?

Mark
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