Should there be a small list of functions which we import automatically? 
For example in sage.all we could do: "from numpy import mean, median". It 
seems strange to not have a top-level "mean" or "median" function, given 
all of the other esoteric top-level functions.


On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 10:28:17 PM UTC-8 Matthias Koeppe wrote:

> On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 8:32:39 PM UTC-8 wst...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Also, if you want to argue that users should explicitly import 
>> everything...
>
>
> No, that's not what I'm arguing. 
>
> The deprecation of the basic_stats module happened because Sage has 
> nothing to offer in this area;
> it's a module with 5 functions that hasn't seen development since 2009. 
> Underdeveloped modules like this reflect poorly on the rest of Sage.
>
> It's a disservice to learners to offer these facilities of Sage as the 
> standard vocabulary of doing basic stats on the computer.
> They will be better off with virtually any other solution: With the 
> built-in stats module of Python; with Numpy/SciPy; with Pandas; with R.
>
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