Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: [Python-ideas] stats module Was: minmax() function ...

2010-10-15 Thread sunqiang
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:05 AM, geremy condra wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger > wrote: >> Hello guys.  If you don't mind, I would like to hijack your thread :-) >> >> ISTM, that the minmax() idea is really just an optimization request. >> A single-pass minmax() is eas

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: [Python-ideas] stats module Was: minmax() function ...

2010-10-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:00:16 am Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Hello guys. If you don't mind, I would like to hijack your thread > :-) Please do :) > A few years ago, Guido and other python devvers supported a > proposal I made to create a stats module, but I didn't have time > to develop it. [...]

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: [Python-ideas] stats module Was: minmax() function ...

2010-10-15 Thread geremy condra
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Hello guys.  If you don't mind, I would like to hijack your thread :-) > > ISTM, that the minmax() idea is really just an optimization request. > A single-pass minmax() is easily coded in simple, pure-python, > so really the discussion is

[Python-Dev] Fwd: [Python-ideas] stats module Was: minmax() function ...

2010-10-15 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Hello guys. If you don't mind, I would like to hijack your thread :-) ISTM, that the minmax() idea is really just an optimization request. A single-pass minmax() is easily coded in simple, pure-python, so really the discussion is about how to remove the loop overhead (there isn't much you can do