[Python-ideas] statistics module: where should it live?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Aug 6 14:18:09 CEST 2013


Le Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:12:47 -0700,
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> a écrit :
> Somebody suggested 'math.statistics' as that would leave the door
> open for a 'cmath.statistics'.

I'm absolutely -10 (*) on any temptation to build thematic packages like
that. "urllib.request" and friends are a disaster when it comes to
discovering, remembering and typing those names.

"Flat is better than nested". Kudos to Tim Peters for understanding why
it is so, even before Python tried to do differently :-)

(*) You may interpret it in binary form if you like :-)

Regards

Antoine.




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