Message 336332 - Python tracker

Message336332

Author	francismb
Recipients	Windson Yang, francismb, rhettinger, steven.daprano
Date	2019-02-22.17:19:08
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<80fd9406-5660-2c0e-d01b-a771cd93bc42@email.de>
In-reply-to	<1550604928.05.0.658249570744.issue35892@roundup.psfhosted.org>

Content
Good options itemization! >> This would give us a clean, fast API with no flags: >> mode(Iterable) -> scalar >> multimode(Iterable) -> list [...] >> For any of those options, we should still add a separate multimode() >> function. [..] >> * Add a Deprecation warning to the current behavior of mode() when it >> finds multimodal data. Then change the behavior in Python 3.9. This >> is uncomfortable for one release, but does get us to the cleanest API >> and best performance. LGTM upto 3.9, shouldn't be "mode" at some point be replaced by "multimode" ?

Content

Good options itemization!

>> This would give us a clean, fast API with no flags:
>>   mode(Iterable) -> scalar
>>   multimode(Iterable) -> list
[...]
>> For any of those options, we should still add a separate multimode()
>> function.
[..]
>> * Add a Deprecation warning to the current behavior of mode() when it
>> finds multimodal data.  Then change the behavior in Python 3.9.  This
>> is uncomfortable for one release, but does get us to the cleanest API
>> and best performance.

LGTM upto 3.9, shouldn't be "mode" at some point be replaced by
"multimode" ?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2019-02-22 17:19:09	francismb	set	recipients: + francismb, rhettinger, steven.daprano, Windson Yang
2019-02-22 17:19:09	francismb	link	issue35892 messages
2019-02-22 17:19:08	francismb	create