Message 336007 - Python tracker

Message336007

Author	francismb
Recipients	Windson Yang, francismb, rhettinger, steven.daprano
Date	2019-02-19.19:35:27
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Message-id	<1550604928.05.0.658249570744.issue35892@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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>> [...] This keeps the signature simple (Iterable -> Scalar). [...] >> >> Categorical, binned, or ordinal data: >> >> mode(data: Iterable, *, first_tie=False) -> object >> multimode(data: Iterable) -> List[object] This seems reasonable to me due legacy (although I really thing that multimode is just the real thing :-) ) >> Continuous data: >> mode(data: Iterable[Real]) -> Real What should return in that case: E.g.: mode([42.0, 42.0, 42.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]) ? 42.0 ? or 1.0 ? or [42.0, 1.0] ? or do I have misunderstood something ? Thanks!

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>> [...] This keeps the signature simple (Iterable -> Scalar). [...]
>>
>> Categorical, binned, or ordinal data:
>>
>>   mode(data: Iterable, *, first_tie=False) -> object
>>   multimode(data: Iterable) -> List[object]

This seems reasonable to me due legacy (although I really thing that
multimode is just the real thing :-) )

>> Continuous data:
>>   mode(data: Iterable[Real]) -> Real

What should return in that case: E.g.: mode([42.0, 42.0, 42.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]) ?

42.0 ? or 1.0 ? or [42.0, 1.0] ? or do I have misunderstood something ? 


Thanks!

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