On 18 Jan 2006, at 16:07, Robert Kern wrote: > Michael Anthony Maibaum wrote: > >> Coming from the scientific community I agree. A relatively shallow >> selection of standard statistical methods would be very useful to >> avoid requiring people to install a relatively large external package >> (e.g. scipy) for a few simple stats methods. > > Gary Strangman's stats.py has existed for many years. Of course, > it's utility > went up quite a bit when it got integrated into scipy so that it > could use > efficient arrays instead of lists and had access to our library of > special > functions.
Sure and that is actually what I've used when I've needed a lightweight solution. I wouldn't begin to argue that something like scipy isn't a better general solution, but something like stats.py might well be a useful addition to the core library. Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
