Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean

[Peter Otten]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> As requested in issue 27181 on the bug tracker, I'm adding functions to
> calculate the harmonic and geometric means to the statistics module.
> 
> I'd like to get a quick show of hands regarding the names. Which do you
> prefer?
> 
> hmean and gmean
> 
> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean

The long names. Life's too short for abbreviations.

> Remember that the arithmetic mean is just called "mean".

I think it's a safe bet that a user asking for the unqualified mean wants 
just that.

> http://bugs.python.org/issue27181