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

[MRAB]

On 06/08/2013 00:23, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 6 August 2013 00:15, Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com <mailto:alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
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>     On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:36 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com
>     <mailto: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.
>
>
> As someone who disagrees, what's wrong with "import statistics as
> stats"? Are you saying it would get in the way if you wanted your own
> statistics module?
>
Well, "statistics" is no longer than "subprocess" anyway.