On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:47 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. :-( > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > * it duplicates functionality * I have no idea how to write those chars on Linux; if I did, I'm not sure it'd be the same on OSX and Windows (probably not) * duplicated aliases might make sense if they add readability; in this case they don't unless (maybe) you have a mathematical background. I can infer what "math.gamma" stands for but not being a mathematician math.Γ makes absolutely zero sense to me. * if you really want to do that you can simply do "from math import gamma as Γ" but it's something I wouldn't like if I were to read your code * I generally dislike any non-ASCII API; the fact that Python 3 allows you to do that should not be an incentive to promote such habit in the stdlib or anywhere else except in the end-user code, and it's something I still wouldn't like it except if in comments or docstrings -1 -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com
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