Best way to write a Python function that integrates a gaussian?

Question

In attempting to use scipy\'s quad method to integrate a gaussian (lets say there\'s a gaussian method named gauss), I was having problems passing needed parameters to gauss and

Answer 1

The gaussian distribution is also called a normal distribution. The cdf function in the scipy norm module does what you want.

from scipy.stats import norm
print norm.cdf(0.0)
>>>0.5

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.norm.html#scipy.stats.norm