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

[Greg Ewing]

> On Aug 8, 2013 7:29 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info 
> <mailto:steve at pearwood.info>> wrote:
>  > - 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).

Does this multi-pass algorithm being talked about use
a predetermined number of passes? If so, then surely
any reiterable object will do, not necessarily a list.

-- 
Greg