Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python

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Date	2013-08-17 21:57 -0600
Subject	Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python
From	Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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> NumPy and SciPy are not available for many Python users, including those
> using a Python implementation for which there is no Numpy support
> <URL:http://new.scipy.org/faq.html#python-version-support> and those for
> whom large, dependency-heavy third-party packages are too much burden.
>
> See the Rationale of PEP 450 for more reasons why “install NumPy” is not
> a feasible solution for many use cases, and why having ‘statistics’ as a
> pure-Python, standard-library package is desirable.

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PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-10 01:10 +0000
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-08-09 22:14 -0500
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-10 07:50 -0400
      Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-08-10 13:23 +0100
        Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-10 08:43 -0400
          Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-08-10 14:17 +0100
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-10 15:05 +1000
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-08-10 09:55 +0200
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-10 16:19 -0400
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-08-11 06:50 -0500
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-11 13:33 +0000
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-11 10:02 -0400
      Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-11 16:44 +0100
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 13:27 +0100
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> - 2013-08-13 20:14 +0200
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 19:44 +0100
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-14 06:21 +0000
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 21:26 -0700
    RE: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> - 2013-08-16 19:17 +0000
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python taldcroft@cfa.harvard.edu - 2013-08-16 08:50 -0700
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python chris.barker@noaa.gov - 2013-08-16 09:31 -0700
      Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-08-16 18:15 +0100
        Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python chris.barker@noaa.gov - 2013-08-16 12:00 -0700
          Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-08-16 20:41 +0100
      Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 18:51 +0000
        Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python chris.barker@noaa.gov - 2013-08-16 12:48 -0700
    Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-16 22:06 -0400
      Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Josef Pktd <josef.pktd@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 05:13 -0700
  Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 21:57 -0600

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