gerion added the comment:
The position might be useful, if you have a second list with some side data
stored in it, and not a list of tuples :).
I had the idea to file a bug, when I had a list of coordinates and wanted to
use the point with the median of the x-coordinates as "represent
gerion added the comment:
My use case is some side data somehow connected to the statistical relevant
data.
(I think, this is more less a similar use case as with the min and max
function.)
A few examples:
The datastructure is a list of tuples: (score, [list of people that have this
score
New submission from gerion:
With Python 3.4 the statistics module was added. It would be cool, if the
functions:
median_low()
median_high()
mode()
would have a "key" keyword argument, just like in max() and min():
```
>>> median_low([(1, 2), (3, 3), (4, 1)], key=lambda e
