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From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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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~