PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
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Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#2About damned time. Writing your own stats library is like writing your own crypto.
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#3No mention of Pandas?
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#4No mention of Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/
I think Pandas is a great candidate for inclusion in the stdlib if this ever happens - and hopefully, numpy/parts of scipy will also be thrown in :)
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#5No mention of Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/
They probably left out pandas because it depends on numpy and also this point:
> For many people, installing numpy may be difficult or impossible.
that's as true, and arguably more, for pandas.
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#6Nice proposal. I think the problem is numpy itself. If you could just do pip install numeric_package then nobody can complain. I don't quite understand why a package has to depend on LINPACK. I will probably switch to julia-lang, because numpy is (at least for me) not that great to work with.
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#7Nice idea
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#8No mention of Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/
I think Pandas is a great candidate for inclusion in the stdlib if this ever happens - and hopefully, numpy/parts of scipy will also be thrown in :)
I think the idea is to include a small independent stats package not a full featured still developing third party. Any number of people need std dev easily and reliably available. If you need numpy on top of that, you know you do and can afford the effort.
For 99% of my work numpy and the associated compilation overhead is unneeded - fits my brain, fits my needs
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#9Kudos to PHP for apparently being ahead of the curve among dynamic languages with regard to statistics. Another interesting, yet unmentioned option is Clojure/Incanter.
Re: PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
#10No mention of Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/
They probably left out pandas because it depends on numpy and also this point: > For many people, installing numpy may be difficult or impossible. that's as true, and arguably more, for pandas.
Although the solution, imho, is to make numpy easier to install across many platforms (ideally `pip install numpy pandas` should just work).