[Python-ideas] NAN handling in the statistics module

[David Mertz]

This callback idea feels way over-engineered for this module. It would
absolutely make sense in a more specialized numeric or statistical library.
But `statistics` feels to me like it should be only simple and basic
operations, with very few knobs attached.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 2:36 PM MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:

> On 2019-01-07 16:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:05:19AM -0500, David Mertz wrote:
> [snip]
> >>  It's not hard to manually check for NaNs and
> >> generate those in your own code.
> >
> > That is correct, but by that logic, we don't need to support *any* form
> > of NAN handling at all. It is easy (if inefficent) for the caller to
> > pre-filter their data. I want to make it easier and more convenient and
> > avoid having to iterate over the data twice if it isn't necessary.
> >
> Could the functions optionally accept a callback that will be called
> when a NaN is first seen?
>
> If the callback returns False, NaNs are suppressed, otherwise they are
> retained and the function returns NaN (or whatever).
>
> The callback would give the user a chance to raise a warning or an
> exception, if desired.
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