[Python-Dev] Accumulation module (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jan 14 16:06:50 EST 2004

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

* What to call the module [Aahz] stats There is already a stat module. Any chance of confusion?

Make it statistics, then.

The other naming issue is that some of the functions have non-statistical uses: product() is general purpose; nlargest() and nsmallest() will accept any datatype (though most of the use cases are with numbers). Are there other general purpose (non-statistical) accumulation/reduction formulas that go here?

Doesn't matter, IMO. The primary use-case for this module will be statistics; people looking for the more unusual functionality will still be likely to poke in this module for related uses.

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