Hi. One of SymPy's Google Code-In students just completed one of the "Create Examples/Short Tutorials Using IPython's Notebook (IPython >= 0.12)" tasks (see http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7129292, and also http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2790).
The student's example notebook is very nice, and I really like the notebook for this medium. I think we should convert all of our examples in the examples/ directory to use notebooks. Right now, they are just annotated scripts that print things to the terminal, which isn't very helpful, because you can read either the code or the output, but it's hard to see both at the same time. The issue is how to properly doctest these. Is there an easy way to doctest IPython notebooks? I am also CC'ing IPython User list. By the way, this would also improve our testing of the examples if we can do this. Right now, we just test that they don't produce any errors, but we don't test the output itself, unless it is also tested by a regular test (which they all should be, but I suspect not all are). Finally, if we do this, I think we should add something in ./setup.py dist (or similar) that automatically adds pdf copies of all the notebooks, so that people who don't have IPython can still read the examples. Is there an easy way to do this? Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
