[Python-ideas] Introduce `start=1` argument to `math.factorial`

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:37:23 +0100
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 September 2014 16:23, Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Listing "stdlib++" projects would mean vouching for them, even if only
> > implicitly. Indeed, let's not get too carried away.
> 
> Nevertheless, there is community knowledge "out there" on what
> constitute best of breed packages. For example "everyone knows" that
> requests is the thing to use if you want to issue web requests.

Is it? That sounds like a caricatural statement. If I'm using Tornado,
Twisted or asyncio, then requests is certainly not "the thing to use"
to issue Web requests. And there are many cases where urlopen() is good
enough, as well. Not to mention other contenders such as pycurl.

> Collecting that knowledge together somewhere so that people for whom
> the above is *not* self-evident could easily find it, would be a
> worthwhile exercise.

If it's community knowledge, then surely that job can be done by the
community. I don't think Python's official documentation is the right
place to reify that knowledge.

Regards

Antoine.