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

[Joshua Landau]

On 5 August 2013 01:06, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 08/04/2013 03:51 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
>
>>
>> I tend to think of it this way: the name should make it clear when you
>> should read the documentation.
>>
>
> If the function is in a module you haven't dealt with before, you should
> read the docs.


Only if you plan on using it. The point was that the name should hint when
you should think of using it and the docs should confirm. Obviously you
shouldn't use an unfamiliar function before you know what it does ;).
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