ENH: add quantiles kw to Series.describe to create dynamic quantiles · Issue #4196 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

This of course can be done directly, but adding the keyword quantiles that accepts a number or list (to create multiple fields), seems like a nice idea

and maybe deprecate percentile_width / replace with quantiles=[50]

like this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17578115/pass-percentiles-to-pandas-agg-function