On 1 August 2017 at 11:45, <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the past, I had a shell alias for sympy which asks for the sympy
> profile, but obviously this is not supported any longer.
>

I think sympy still has 'isympy' to launch an IPython console with sympy
already set up.


> Creating a dedicated sympy kernel as you suggest seems possible but a bit
> heavy-handed for such a simple thing (and nothing I can tell my students in
> order to lower the barrier of entry...).
>

It's very light in computer terms - just a couple of tiny files on your
disk. I agree it's not very convenient for students, though. I can't think
of anything you can do to make it simpler for them than importing and
calling a function.


> Yes, I do need to switch profiles as I am using both pylab and sympy
> interactively. Funny enough, ipython has a builtin magic for pylab, but
> none for sympy. I am not sure how much this forum is connected to ipython,
> but that would be an obvious trivial thing to add that would more or less
> solve the issue of getting a working sympy console quickly in the most
> obvious way.
>

The %pylab magic is gently deprecated, and I doubt we'd go for a new magic
command to integrate with a particular module - sorry!

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