[Python-ideas] statistics module in Python3.4

[Nick Coghlan]

On 1 February 2014 23:32, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're making this sound a lot more complicated than it is. The
> problem is simple: Decimal doesn't integrate with the numeric tower.
> This is explicit in the PEP that brought in the numeric tower:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3141/#the-decimal-type

http://bugs.python.org/issue20481 now covers the concerns over
avoiding making any guarantees that the current type coercion
behaviour of the statistics module will be preserved indefinitely (it
includes a link back to the archived copy of Oscar's post on
mail.python.org).

Cheers,
Nick.

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