On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:10 AM David Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 27/11/2021 18:20, Jeremy Monat wrote: > > Hello, I'm Jeremy Monat. My primary interest in helping with SymPy > development is making it easier for new users to use SymPy by improving the > documentation. It is plenty powerful for the application I needed; learning > how to use SymPy was the challenge for me. > > I agree that SymPy documentation really doesn't begin to justice to the > quality of this software > > I suspect the problem is that most of us - developers and users - are keen on > programming, not on writing documentation. I'm definitely guilty as charged. > > Just one of the problems I find, is that the documentation is incredibly > uneven. Just as an example in 3.4.6 we learn that sqrt is not a function, > which is a fairly elementary piece of information - it translates immediately > into Pow, but then the example it gives IMHO, is anything but elementary! > Indeed this is the first mention of the Wild() in the documentation.
Can you clarify what you mean by "3.4.6"? This is the sort of issue I plan on addressing as part of my CZI documentation project. Aaron Meurer > > Incidentally, if you try help(sqrt) the response starts with: > > "Help on function sqrt in module sympy.functions.elementary.miscellaneous" > > Best wishes, > > David > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/15799423-b96f-9f4e-a023-610df8d92f0d%40dbailey.co.uk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6Kchvcfga2mOD0WFYzKh4S8u%2BvEd97hL_OU899VZQWnPg%40mail.gmail.com.
