Martin Teichmann writes: > Also in this case my proposal would give SymPy the chance to > understand what the user actually entered, and act accordingly.
But *only* in this case. It seems to me that what SymPy would really like is for arithmetic expressions in certain contexts to be returned as syntax trees rather than executed. But this really would greatly complicate the mental model, unlike your ratiofloat proposal. Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TAVH5Q43FANJ35THBXGVJL7XW7NQBBEO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/