Just use `from statistics import mean as avg` (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/statistics.html#statistics.mean).
Please provide some justification on why do you think it's desirable to make `avg` a builtin, considering, that doing so is a backwards incompatible change due to the more than likely name clash. On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:52 AM Kemal Diri <kemal.d...@sewan.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I think it would be nice to introduce an avg method for lists as a > built-in function in python3. > To get average of the list, I need to use some libs (eg numpy). > In my opinion, if I can get *sum* of the list, I should get *avg *also in > a same way. > > For ex [python3]: > > >>> l = [5, 9, 7,] > ... > ... import numpy as np > ... print(np.mean(l)) > 7.0 > >>> sum(l) / len(l) > 7.0 > >>> avg(l) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<input>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'avg' is not defined > > Cordialement/Regards > Kemal DIRI > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NQB6VU6QSC253JT2SWUO3IWCZ3IG36XP/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Sebastian Kreft
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