[Python-ideas] Pre-PEP: adding a statistics module to Python

[Andrew McNabb]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:37:58PM -0500, Brian Curtin wrote:
> 
> Like everything else we add, shouldn't a module live in the Python
> ecosystem, standout as the best of breed, and *then* be proposed for
> inclusion?

As Steven pointed out, numpy/scipy are best of breed in the Python
ecosystem, but they're too "advanced" for inclusion in the standard
library.  There's room for a standard implementation, but the module
wouldn't be complex enough to require years of development outside the
standard library.

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