If you consider numpy an obscure library, it may be that your syllabus 
needs updating


On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 10:52:19 AM UTC-8 mat...@gmail.com wrote:

> Mean, median and mode are now deprecated. E.g.:
>
> >median([1,2,3])
> 2 :1: DeprecationWarning: sage.stats.basic_stats.median is deprecated; 
> use numpy.median or numpy.nanmedian instead See 
> https://trac.sagemath.org/29662 for details.
>
> But shouldn't these basic functions have some default functionality? Is 
> the intention really to make Sage users call basic functions from 
> libraries. Students (mostly) don't know what numpy is and makes using mean, 
> median and mode weirdly obscure - like calling combinatorics functions in 
> Mathematica. For me (using Sage for classroom teaching) one attraction of 
> Sage is that most basic things that a student would use have names that 
> might be in their textbooks...
>
> Will Calculus be deprecated too?
>

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