[Python-ideas] statistics.sum [was Re: Pre-PEP: adding a statistics module to Python]

[Joshua Landau]

On 5 August 2013 21:04, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who has given feedback, it has been very humbling and
> informative. I have a revised proto-PEP just about ready for (hopefully
> final) feedback, but before I do there is one potentially major stumbling
> block: whether or not the statistics module should have it's own version of
> sum.
>
...

> Are there still objections to making statistics.sum public? If the only
> way to move forward is to make it a private implementation detail, I will
> do so, but I really think that I have built a better sum and hope to keep
> it as a public function.
>
> Show of hands please, +1 or -1 on statistics.sum.
>

 +1 for any of [math.]statistics.[[precise]_]sum or equiv.
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