[issue37905] Remove NormalDist.overlap() or improve documentation?

2019-08-21 Thread Christoph Deil
New submission from Christoph Deil : I saw that Python 3.8 will add a NormalDist class: https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/statistics.html#normaldist-objects Personally I don't see the value of adding this to the Python standard lib. The natural progression would be to extend and extend

[issue37905] Remove NormalDist.overlap() or improve documentation?

2019-08-21 Thread Christoph Deil
Christoph Deil added the comment: The Monte Carlo example here has completely unstable results: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cc353a0cd95d9b0c93ed0b60ba762427a94c790d#diff-d436928bc44b5d7c40a8047840f55d35R633 If you run it multiple times, you will see that `mean` is relatively

[issue37905] Improve docs for NormalDist

2019-08-27 Thread Christoph Deil
Christoph Deil added the comment: Thank you, Raymond! -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue37905> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue30882] Built-in list disappeared from Python 2.7 intersphinx inventory

2017-07-09 Thread Christoph Deil
New submission from Christoph Deil: We have a project where we sub-class `list`. Since recently our docs build is failing because the intersphinx inventory entry for `list` on Python 2.7 doesn't exist any more. I think this is a regression, because Python 2.7 is supposed to be stabl

[issue16947] Search for "sherpa" on pypi leads to gitflow

2013-01-12 Thread Christoph Deil
New submission from Christoph Deil: If you enter "sherpa" on http://pypi.python.org you currently get http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gitflow/0.5.0 Why? It doesn't make much sense as the term "sherpa" doesn't appear on that pypi page. Instead pypi should say &qu

[issue16947] Search for "sherpa" on pypi leads to gitflow

2013-01-12 Thread Christoph Deil
Christoph Deil added the comment: Sorry about that. Ticket in PyPI tracer is now here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3600625&group_id=66150&atid=513503 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python