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| author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-03-12 07:43:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-03-12 07:43:27 (GMT) |
| commit | fc06a192fdc44225ef1cc879f615a81931ad0a85 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a6eb28aac5ebf320cb665fa53a9a08cf75fbcc0 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 3e936431e23b424b1e4665e8165c245924f0ab02 (diff) | |
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bpo-35892: Fix mode() and add multimode() (#12089)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 9cd5a3a..ad86917 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ Added :func:`statistics.fmean` as a faster, floating point variant of :func:`statistics.mean()`. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Steven D'Aprano in :issue:`35904`.) +Added :func:`statistics.multimode` that returns a list of the most +common values. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`35892`.) + Added :class:`statistics.NormalDist`, a tool for creating and manipulating normal distributions of a random variable. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36018`.) @@ -591,6 +594,11 @@ Changes in the Python API * The function :func:`platform.popen` has been removed, it was deprecated since Python 3.3: use :func:`os.popen` instead. +* The :func:`statistics.mode` function no longer raises an exception + when given multimodal data. Instead, it returns the first mode + encountered in the input data. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger + in :issue:`35892`.) + * The :meth:`~tkinter.ttk.Treeview.selection` method of the :class:`tkinter.ttk.Treeview` class no longer takes arguments. Using it with arguments for changing the selection was deprecated in Python 3.6. Use |