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

[Clay Sweetser]

On Aug 7, 2013 12:05 PM, "Andrew Barnert" <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So there are three choices. Using a one-pass algorithm would be
surprising because it's less accurate. Automatic listification would be
surprising because you went out of your way to pass lazy iterators around
and variance broke the benefits. An exception would be surprising because
almost every other function in the stdlib that takes lists also takes
iterators, even when there are good reasons not to.
Just curious, where does this pop up (an stdlib function taking an
iterator, when using an iterator with such a function is a bad idea)?
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