[Python-Dev] PEP 450 adding statistics module

Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 10:36:23 CEST 2013


On 9 September 2013 09:02, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 08.09.13 20:52, Guido van Rossum написав(ла):
>
>> Well, to me zip(*x) is unnatural, and it's inefficient when the arrays are
>> long.
>
> Perhaps we need zip.from_iterable()?

I would prefer it if chain.from_iterable were named something like
flatten (as it is in the itertools recipes). Similarly transpose is a
better name than zip.from_iterable.


Oscar


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