Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> writes: > Given that installing numpy or scipy is generally no more difficult > that executing "pip install (scipy|numpy)" I'm not really feeling the > need for a battery here...
NumPy and SciPy are not available for many Python users, including those using a Python implementation for which there is no Numpy support <URL:http://new.scipy.org/faq.html#python-version-support> and those for whom large, dependency-heavy third-party packages are too much burden. See the Rationale of PEP 450 for more reasons why “install NumPy” is not a feasible solution for many use cases, and why having ‘statistics’ as a pure-Python, standard-library package is desirable. -- \ “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I | `\ guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
