[Python-Dev] Accumulation module

[Matthias Klose]

Raymond Hettinger writes:
> I'm working a module with some accumulation/reduction/statistical
> formulas:
> 
> average(iterable):
> stddev(iterable, sample=False)
> product(iterable)
> nlargest(iterable, n=1)
> nsmallest(iterable, n=1)
> 
> The questions that have arisen so far are:
> 
> * What to call the module
> 
> * What else should be in it?

you may want to have a look at
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/Neural_Systems_Group/gary/python.html