[Python-ideas] stats module Was: minmax() function ... (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Oct 18 23:57:09 CEST 2010

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:45:14 pm Éric Araujo wrote:

[Sorry if this comes twice, connection errors here]

> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stats Isn’t it a potential source of errors that the module name is so close to that of stat?

The name is not set in stone.

Any name is likely to lead to potential errors -- it took me five years to stop writing "import maths", and I still never remember whether I want to import date or datetime. But it's not a critical error -- it's pretty obvious when you've imported the wrong module.

-- Steven D'Aprano

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