fromList

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 7

One feature I miss is create a distribution from a list.

Reported by dtrillo on 2014-11-24 16:14:48

[Former user]

Simply put an asterisk in front of the list (or tuple or iterator or...):

>>> die = Lea.fromVals(*[1,2,3,4,5,6])
>>> die
1 : 1/6
2 : 1/6
3 : 1/6
4 : 1/6
5 : 1/6
6 : 1/6

OK. This question has been raised by one other user. Probably, this must be more detailed
in the tutorial.

Reported by [e-mail] on 2014-11-25 23:20:49 - Status changed: Invalid

[Former user]

Tutorial wiki page has been updated with examples on this topic.

Reported by [e-mail] on 2014-11-25 23:35:13 - Status changed: Accepted

[Former user]

Why don't you simply add a method:

def fromList(you_list):
     return Lea.fromVals(*your_list)

It's simple, and it let users to use list!

I reject using LEA because I couldn't get a simple method that use a list. My thought
was: if I coundn't, I leave it.

List is almost the only objets I use in Python!

Reported by dtrillo on 2014-11-27 10:54:51

[Former user]

OK. This is then a "convenience" method.
I will add this in forthcoming version 2. For the sake of generality I propose to call
this method
fromSeq(...)
because it could be used not only with lists, but any Python sequence (lists, tuples,
iterators, ...).

Reported by [e-mail] on 2014-12-16 18:04:24

[Former user]

Reported by [e-mail] on 2014-12-16 18:04:52 - Status changed: Started

[Former user]

Done in Lea 2

Reported by [e-mail] on 2014-12-25 23:08:02 - Status changed: Verified

[Former user]

Reported by [e-mail] on 2015-07-17 13:02:38 - Labels added: Type-Enhancement - Labels removed: Type-Defect