[Python-Dev] PEP 450 adding statistics module (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 22:00:56 CEST 2013

> > And I guess this is subjective: conversely, the API you're proposing > > doesn't feel Pythonic to me. :-) I'd like the hear the opinion of other > > python-dev readers. > > I agree with Mark: the proposed median, median.low, etc., doesn't feel > right. Is there any example of doing this in the stdlib? I suggest just > median(), medianlow(), etc. I too prefer the medianlow naming rather than median.low. I'm not sure I can articulate why, but certainly the fact that that latter isn't used anywhere else in the stdlib that I can think of is probably a lot of it :) Perhaps the underlying thought is that we don't use classes pure function namespaces: we expect classes to be something more than that.

Certainly. Python does not force the "everything is a class" philosophy of Java and Ruby. Classes have their uses, but namespacing isn't it. There are modules for namespaces.

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