The functionality has not been removed. We can do a slower deprecation here, i.e., not remove the module after a year, but perhaps after n years.
On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 3:26:08 PM UTC-8 John H Palmieri wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/22239d79-cab8-46bd-b6ff-e698441666c9n%40googlegroups.com.
