> > +1 for consistency, but I'm just fine with the short names. It's in the > statistics module after all, so the context is very narrow and clear and > people who don't know which to use or what the one does that they find in a > given piece of code will have to read the docs and maybe fresh up their > rusty math memory anyway. Longer names don't help much with that. > > If further clarity is needed in a given code context that uses a direct > name import, renaming the function at the same time is easy enough. I often > do that with "os.path.join", for example, which turns into "join_path" on > import. Same problem, easy solution.
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