[Python-ideas] Module name [was Re: Pre-PEP: adding a statistics module to Python]

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:36 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> I was thinking that as there's a module called "math" (a short name)
> the statistics module should be called "stats", but then I remembered
> that there's already a module called "stat", which could be confusing...
>

FWIW, I would also prefer a shorter name (or even folding statistics into
math altogether.)

We already have pstat module and no-one complained that it can be confused
with stat.  In general, I don't like when stdlib steals good English words
from the user.  If stats does not work - consider statslib.
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