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| From | Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> |
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| Subject | Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie |
| Date | 2015-04-30 00:00 +0200 |
| Organization | None |
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Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 21:03 CEST schreef Peter Otten: >> I was judging from the look of your MovingAverage. >> >> I don't like the interface, it really should take an iterable so >> that you can write >> >>>>> list(moving_average([1,2,3], 2)) >> [1.5, 2.5] > > I should probably document it better. The idea is that you do not have > the data yet. At certain intervals data is acquired and at that moment > you want the moving average with the new data. But it would not hurt > to have the possibility to feed it a list of values, beside single > value. Something to better the function. Thanks. With that explanation and especially Ian's motivational excursion it makes more sense. My conclusion "ah newbie, doesn't know/shuns iterator protocol" may be wrong. However, it may be better to follow Ian's example and decouple adding a new value and reading the current average.
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Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 16:53 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-29 18:27 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 19:12 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-29 21:03 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 22:47 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-30 00:00 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-09 08:10 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-09 10:28 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-09 11:43 +0200
Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:40 -0600
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