[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 87130512ef34 by Steven D'Aprano in branch '3.5': NEWS message for issue #26977. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/87130512ef34 New changeset 39faad3cd626 by Steven D'Aprano in branch 'default': Merge NEWS update from 3.5 for issue #26977.

[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6f27dbc55f10 by Steven D'Aprano in branch '3.5': Issue 26977, remove unneeded line in pvariance (duplicate call to _ss). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6f27dbc55f10 New changeset 3c75707045f5 by Steven D'Aprano in branch 'default': Branch merge

[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

Changes by Berker Peksag : -- resolution: -> fixed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Thanks Ian! I can't believe I looked at that function earlier today and couldn't see that! -- nosy: +steven.daprano stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2bf4a02f3570 by Steven D'Aprano in branch 'default': Issue 26977, remove unneeded line in pvariance (duplicate call to _ss). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2bf4a02f3570 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue26977] Unnecessary line in statistics.pvariance

New submission from Ian Foote: In statistics.pvariance, the sum of squares helper function (_ss) is called twice and the first return value is unused: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9043c80b0daaddb5bff1e37432d503910506727f/Lib/statistics.py#L596 -- components: Library (Lib)