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Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean

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Subject Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
Date Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:51:52 -0700
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On 07/09/2016 03:23 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Ethan Furman schrieb am 09.07.2016 um 08:27:
>> On 07/08/2016 10:49 PM, Random832 wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 01:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>>> hmean and gmean
>>>>
>>>> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean
>>>
>>> The latter, definitely.
>>
>> My preference is also for the latter.  However, if the rest of the module
>> is filled with abbreviated names you may as well be consistent with them.
>
> +1 for consistency, but I'm just fine with the short names. It's in the
> statistics module after all, so the context is very narrow and clear and
> people who don't know which to use or what the one does that they find in a
> given piece of code will have to read the docs and maybe fresh up their
> rusty math memory anyway. Longer names don't help much with that.
>
> If further clarity is needed in a given code context that uses a direct
> name import, renaming the function at the same time is easy enough. I often
> do that with "os.path.join", for example, which turns into "join_path" on
> import. Same problem, easy solution.

+1

I would definitely need to read the docs, whatever the name.  ;)

--
~Ethan~

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Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-09 15:26 +1000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-07-09 08:43 +0300
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-09 01:49 -0400
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-08 23:27 -0700
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-07-09 11:04 +0200
    Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-12 15:13 -0700
      Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 08:17 +1000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2016-07-09 12:23 +0200
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-09 06:51 -0700
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 08:16 -0600
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 16:13 +0000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 17:53 +0100
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 18:31 +0000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-09 17:39 -0400
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 07:45 +1000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 00:28 -0700
    Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-10 18:51 +1000
      Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 09:24 +0000
        Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-10 20:08 +1000
          Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 21:07 +1000
          Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 07:29 -0700
            Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 07:44 -0700
            Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 08:55 -0600
              Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-07-10 18:03 +0300
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 11:15 -0600
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-12 15:17 -0700
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-12 22:57 +0000
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-12 18:42 -0700
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-12 21:58 -0400
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-13 13:03 +0000
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 12:25 +1000
                Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-10 19:21 -0400
            Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-10 12:08 -0400
            Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-12 15:19 -0700
          Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 15:43 +0000
  Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 01:28 -0600
    Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-07-10 11:01 +0300
      Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 09:04 -0600

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