[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 3562439eb293c5fe90b1f1fe507d57d2f4fcd044 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-38385: Fix iterator/iterable terminology in statistics docs (GH-17111) (GH-17113)

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- priority: normal -> low resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 733b9a308e3c49855888e2e12397ae56d831e780 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master': bpo-38385: Fix iterator/iterable terminology in statistics docs (GH-17111) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/733b9a308e3c49855888e2e12397ae56d831e780

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16620 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17113 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16618 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17111 ___ Python tracker

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This is a reasonable suggestion (all iterators are iterable, but not all iterables are iterators). I'll work on it shortly (in conjunction with some other minor doc fixups). -- assignee: docs@python -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger,

[issue38385] statistics: incorrect documentation

New submission from Eric O. LEBIGOT : The documentation for the statistics package indicates that many of its functions (like median()) accept iterators. They seem to actually accept something more convenient, namely iterables. Thus, iterator could probably be usefully replaced by iterable