[Python-ideas] Pre-PEP 2nd draft: adding a statistics module to Python

[Ryan]

Looks great to me! Just remember to put a big warning in the docs about the list/iterator problem.

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

>Attached is the second draft of the pre-PEP for adding a statistics
>module to Python. A brief summary of the most important changes:
>
>- it's a top-level module called "statistics", not "math.stats";
>
>- statistics.sum stays (although that's subject to revision, if
>builtin.sum or math.fsum are "fixed" before 3.4 feature-freeze);
>
>- one-pass algorithm for variance is deferred until Python 3.5, until
>then, lists are the preferred data structure (iterators will continue
>to work, provided they are small enough to be converted to lists).
>
>Last chance to object or suggest changes before I submit this to
>Python-Dev.
>
>Thanks again to everyone who provided feedback.
>
>
>
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>Steven
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