David Mertz added the comment:
If anyone wants to look at my not-yet-complete changes (see other comment),
it's https://github.com/DavidMertz/cpython/tree/bpo-45133. It has a different
bpo because I filed a duplicate before realizing. I can change the branch name
before a PR, but m
David Mertz added the comment:
I've made the few additional changes to those in this PR. When I work out the
issues, I'll make a new PR. I took out an attempt with `path_t`. However,
here is why I think argument clinic (or something else?!) is actually
intercepting the atte
David Mertz added the comment:
Oops... I missed prior closely related or identical issue at:
https://bugs.python.org/issue40563
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New submission from David Mertz :
Evan Greenup via Python-ideas
Currently, in Python 3.9, `dbm.open()`, `dbm.gnu.open()` and `dbm.ndbm.open()`
doesn't support path-like object, class defined in `pathlib`.
It would be nice to add support with it.
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David Mertz added the comment:
I believe that the current behavior of `statistics.median[|_low|_high\]` is
simply broken. It relies on the particular behavior of Python sorting, which
only utilizes `.__lt__()` between objects, and hence does not require a total
order.
I can think of
David Mertz added the comment:
Raymond wrote:
> The idea is that the method would return a new counter instance
> and leave the existing instance untouched.
Your own first example suggested:
c /= sum(c.values())
That would suggest an inplace modification. But even if it's no
David Mertz added the comment:
I definitely wouldn't want a mutator that "normalized" counts for the reason
Antoine mentions. It would be a common error to normalize then continue
meaningless counting.
One could write a `Frequency` subclass easily enough. The essential feat
