(Un)Happily we have the keyword "as" already. They can make their own
aliases.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 11:46 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:08:57PM -0500, David Mertz wrote:
>
> > >>> from statistics import stdev as σ
> > >>> σ([5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 7])
> > 1.4719601443879744
>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:43 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:08:57PM -0500, David Mertz wrote:
>
> > >>> from statistics import stdev as σ
> > >>> σ([5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 7])
> > 1.4719601443879744
> >
> > :-)
>
> You know what you've done now, don't you? Somebody is going to
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:08:57PM -0500, David Mertz wrote:
> >>> from statistics import stdev as σ
> >>> σ([5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 7])
> 1.4719601443879744
>
> :-)
You know what you've done now, don't you? Somebody is going to propose a
whole series of aliased names for statistics and math modules:
>
> For example, the function for calculating standard deviation is written
>
`statistics.stdev` not `σ`.
>
What do you mean?
>>> from statistics import stdev as σ
>>> σ([5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 7])
1.4719601443879744
:-)
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Hi Nathan,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:58:58PM +, Nathan Edwards wrote:
> I love regular expressions.
Regexes' terse syntax are normally considered rather the opposite of
Pythonic.
> I would love to see Bra-Ket notation and many of the popular
> mathematical forms commonly practiced in
Can you provide short, but non-trivial, clear examples of "before" (current
Python) and "after" (what you propose it looks like) to demonstrate the
advantage?
Will it be ambiguous with existing syntax?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 6:10 PM Nathan Edwards
wrote:
> I love regular expressions. I would
