Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> I'd like to get a quick show of hands regarding the names. Which do you >>> prefer? >>> >>> hmean and gmean >>> >>> harmonic_mean and geometric_mean >> >> I'd prefer the shorter names. > > I'd prefer the longer. Anybody who wants gmean can easily type: > > from statistics import geometric_mean as gmean
That argument goes both ways with equal force. Possibly very slightly in favour of the *shorter* names, for those who are happy to import the function with its eventual name as is. I did say "very slightly". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
