On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > What you are think about adding Unicode aliases for some mathematic names in > the math module? ;-) > > math.π = math.pi > math.τ = math.tau > math.Γ = math.gamma > math.ℯ = math.e > > Unfortunately we can't use ∞, ∑ and √ as identifiers. :-( >
If this were to happen, I would only add π and forget about the others. It is the only one that is nearly 100 percent unambiguous. And seeing that in code or listed in math or builtins might have a nice wow factor to some. If π were in builtins, it might actually be useful as being more readable and faster to type than math.pi or np.pi. As math.π, I'm not sure it's worth it, although less harmful than math.tau. In IPython/Jupyter, you can type \pi + tab, and you'll get π. This even works on command line! -- Koos (mobile) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
