Should there be a small list of functions which we import automatically? For example in sage.all we could do: "from numpy import mean, median". It seems strange to not have a top-level "mean" or "median" function, given all of the other esoteric top-level functions.
On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 10:28:17 PM UTC-8 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 8:32:39 PM UTC-8 wst...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Also, if you want to argue that users should explicitly import >> everything... > > > No, that's not what I'm arguing. > > The deprecation of the basic_stats module happened because Sage has > nothing to offer in this area; > it's a module with 5 functions that hasn't seen development since 2009. > Underdeveloped modules like this reflect poorly on the rest of Sage. > > It's a disservice to learners to offer these facilities of Sage as the > standard vocabulary of doing basic stats on the computer. > They will be better off with virtually any other solution: With the > built-in stats module of Python; with Numpy/SciPy; with Pandas; with R. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/ad50aa77-c5fc-4b6d-8b2b-c364518b83bcn%40googlegroups.com.
