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| author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-07-21 05:53:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-07-21 05:53:26 (GMT) |
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gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (#122075)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index f7051ae..614f5b9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ However, for reading convenience, most of the examples show sorted sequences. >>> mode(["red", "blue", "blue", "red", "green", "red", "red"]) 'red' + Only hashable inputs are supported. To handle type :class:`set`, + consider casting to :class:`frozenset`. To handle type :class:`list`, + consider casting to :class:`tuple`. For mixed or nested inputs, consider + using this slower quadratic algorithm that only depends on equality tests: + ``max(data, key=data.count)``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 Now handles multimodal datasets by returning the first mode encountered. Formerly, it raised :exc:`StatisticsError` when more than one mode was |