https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/774c7b1693b314919163c026a3e6521a78ca55a4 commit: 774c7b1693b314919163c026a3e6521a78ca55a4 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: hauntsaninja <[email protected]> date: 2024-07-21T06:10:06Z summary:
[3.13] gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (GH-122075) (#122076) gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (GH-122075) (cherry picked from commit ebc18abbf34ff248764bda1a02db7f1c783b71e3) Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/statistics.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index f7051ae2c80eb0..614f5b905a4a2e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ However, for reading convenience, most of the examples show sorted sequences. >>> mode(["red", "blue", "blue", "red", "green", "red", "red"]) 'red' + Only hashable inputs are supported. To handle type :class:`set`, + consider casting to :class:`frozenset`. To handle type :class:`list`, + consider casting to :class:`tuple`. For mixed or nested inputs, consider + using this slower quadratic algorithm that only depends on equality tests: + ``max(data, key=data.count)``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 Now handles multimodal datasets by returning the first mode encountered. Formerly, it raised :exc:`StatisticsError` when more than one mode was _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
