On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 01:53:51PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I've spoken to users of other statistics packages and languages, such as > R, and I cannot find any consensus on what the "right" behaviour should > be for NANs except "not that!". > > So I propose that statistics functions gain a keyword only parameter to > specify the desired behaviour when a NAN is found:
Thanks everyone for the feedback, does anyone have a strong opinion on what to name this parameter? In R, the usual parameter name is typically "na.rm" to remove them: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/mean.html https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/sd.html Matlab optionally takes one of two strings: https://au.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mean.html?#d123e832786 It doesn't seem to have named parameters. I'm leaning towards "nans=..." with an enum. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ROR4RSS4NWWE7PU64UE5SPNICZJZHCRZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
