In mathcad there actually is toolbar (or "floating" toolbar) with all the greek letters, but maybe a widget is actually that....
I do also try to avoid 1-letter variable names, but when you actually do evaluate equations and want to have a 1-to-1 mapping to some formula in a textbook I think it makes sense. Regarding letters used as operators, I do think they should be included. Maybe you want to define af function Δ acting as the Laplace operator? /Jonatan Tirsdag den 16. december 2014 22.43.09 UTC+1 skrev Joseph Martinot-Lagarde: > > Le 15/12/2014 22:33, Jonatan Hjul a écrit : > > I have just installed python3 on one of my machines to experiment a bit. > > > > One of the great things about python3 is support for unicode variables, > > so we can now define some diameter as ø = 3 or the standard deviation as > > σ = 3.5. Now we definitely have a lot of strange symbols on different > > keyboards, but I guess most people using spyder is familiar with greek > > letters. > > > > So maybe a greek toolbar would be useful in the python3 version? > > > > And maybe we should have a shortcuts like ctrl+g to convert from latin > > to greek letters like in mathcad (i.e. "s" followed by ctrl+g results in > > "σ"). > > > > In the python2 version it could be disabled or just convert to "sigma". > > > > What do you think? > > > > /Jonatan > > A greek toolbar would have way too much buttons. I'd prefer a widget to > insert special characters, including greek ones. This should be easilly > doable as a plugin. Some characters are considered "operators" rather > than characters so these should not be included. > > Convert from latin to greek with a shortcut is a great idea ! I > personally tend to avoid 1-letter variable names but I see how it could > be useful. > > Joseph > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
