On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I for one think we should keep sympify() (and the S() shortcut).  sympify() 
> gives a nice character to SymPy, as a function named after it.  I certainly 
> don't see why you would want to delete sympify() and just keep S().  How is 
> that better than just keeping sympify() but always using S()?  And besides, 
> 'sympify' is almost guaranteed to be unique to any namespace it is imported 
> into, whereas this is likely not the case for 'S'.

After thinking about it for a while, I think you are right, we should
probably keep both.

>
> One thing I think we do need to do though is to make sympify() more prevalent 
> in the docs.  I have seen more than one instance on the internet where 
> someone was trying to write their own equation parser for SymPy because they 
> didn't know about the existence of the sympify() function.

Yes, we need to improve our docs for sure.

Ondrej

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