From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:00:42 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-33089: Add math.dist() and math.hypot() to Whatsnew (GH-11896) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a2~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ff5962d2e9af2c35d09d39465397c6fa6e9965c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-33089: Add math.dist() and math.hypot() to Whatsnew (GH-11896) https://bugs.python.org/issue33089 --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index dbc3787a9562..632c2a87a69a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -193,9 +193,16 @@ Add option ``--json-lines`` to parse every input line as separate JSON object. math ---- +Added new function :func:`math.dist` for computing Euclidean distance +between two points. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`33089`.) + +Expanded the :func:`math.hypot` function to handle multiple dimensions. +Formerly, it only supported the 2-D case. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`33089`.) + Added new function, :func:`math.prod`, as analogous function to :func:`sum` that returns the product of a 'start' value (default: 1) times an iterable of -numbers. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`issue35606`) +numbers. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`35606`) os.path