[Python-Dev] PEP 450 adding statistics module

[Eli Bendersky]

>
> > > 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 :)
>
> Perhaps the underlying thought is that we don't use classes pure
> function namespaces:  we expect classes to be something more than
> that.
>

Certainly. Python does not force the "everything is a class" philosophy of
Java and Ruby. Classes have their uses, but namespacing isn't it. There are
modules for namespaces.

Eli
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