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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 05/08/13 08:51, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On a third point, would it make sense for this to be maths.statistics? It'd
> increase discoverability for exactly the target audience and it seems to
> make sense to me. (We could, as a bonus, then easily deprecate math.fsum in
> favour of math.statistics.sum).


I would be okay with that in principle, but there's at least one step needed first. There is/was a policy that math is (mostly) just a lightweight wrapper around the platform C math library. While that's less true now than it used to be, there would need to be agreement that it was appropriate to bury that policy once and for all.




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Steven