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

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> I have raised an issue on the tracker to add a statistics module to
> Python's standard library:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/**issue18606 <http://bugs.python.org/issue18606>
>
> and have been asked to write a PEP. Attached is my draft PEP. Feedback is
> requested, thanks in advance.
>

The PEP does not mention statistics.sum(), but the reference implementation
includes it.  I am not sure stdlib needs the third sum function after
builtins.sum and math.fsum.  I think it will be better to improve
builtins.sum instead.
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