On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 05:51:09PM -, Marco Sulla via Python-ideas wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > > from statistics import mean
> > > sum([1e16,1,1])/3 == 1e16/3# surprise!
> > > True
> > > mean([1e16,1,1]) == 1e16/3
> > > False
> > > Regards,
>
> Python 3.9.0a0 (heads/master-
The problem is that everyone has a different idea about what is a "basic
operation" is. If everything that anyone considered a "basic operation"
was included as a built-in then the builtins would be unusably large. That
is why we have the standard library, so people can easily do "basic
operation
On Dec 26, 2019, at 05:54, Kemal Diri 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).
You don’t need a third party library like numpy; you can use sta
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > from statistics import mean
> > sum([1e16,1,1])/3 == 1e16/3# surprise!
> > True
> > mean([1e16,1,1]) == 1e16/3
> > False
> > Regards,
Python 3.9.0a0 (heads/master-dirty:d8ca2354ed, Oct 30 2019, 20:25:01)
[GCC 9.2.1 20190909] on linux
Type "help", "copyright"
So why only mean and not median, that's better for statistics? :D
Seriously, if you want it builtin, add it to PYTHONSTARTUP:
https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONSTARTUP
from statistics import mean
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The Python standard library module 'statistics' has a "mean" function.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 08:54 Kemal Diri 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).
>
Thank you Sebastien for your contribution. I wasn't clear maybe.
My idea is being able to use avg function without importing any library.
The reason to propose this evolution is basically,
* If I can do sum(list) and len(list), would be better to do avg(list)
(since I know sum and len of my
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 li
