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You're kidding, right? Excel is awful, here's proof: If I open up the documentation for Windows, there's nothing about average. I hit the Start menu, I type "a
by gohrt 12y ago
You're kidding, right?
Excel is awful, here's proof: If I open up the documentation for Windows, there's nothing about average.
I hit the Start menu, I type "average(1,4,6,8)", and I get, nothing.
What you like about Excel is that it is an IDE. And IDE that makes simple things simple, and hard things back-asswards (VLOOKUP??? CONCATENATE?? filters)
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.mean.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.me...
- throwawaymsft 12y agoI must be missing something. Why should Windows OS (or Mac OS, in my case) handle help for an app? When you're in Excel, you get contextual Excel help, and only Excel help (which is a good thing). Do you want every mention of "average" in your email to show up? Sure, SciPy can take an average (not Python proper). How is the user supposed to know to visit a non-standard Python module site and search there? How about the next commonly used function, like charting. If I search "bar chart" which Python module site should I magically know to visit? VLOOKUP (Vertical lookup) isn't the best name, sure, but "lookup" is in the name. It's another keyword to learn, like "foreach".