[Python-ideas] statistics module in Python3.4

[Wolfgang Maier]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at ...> writes:

> 
> On 1 February 2014 23:32, Oscar Benjamin
> <oscar.j.benjamin at ...> 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.
> 

Thanks a lot, Nick, for all your efforts in filing the bugs.
I just added a possible patch for http://bugs.python.org/issue20481 to the
bug tracker.
Best,
Wolfgang