I agree with the value of colorization. I was just experimenting with coloring passwords with different colors for lower case, uppercase, and digits/punctuation after realizing that I kind of use tone in mental recitation to indicate uppercase. In the same spirit it might be interesting to have colors for variables of interest, other variables, and constants.
/c On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 9:03:13 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Ed, > > The coloring is sort of cool. Am I correct that the intention to help > people visualize what is known and what is being solved for? > > If you are interested in using Sympy for algebraic manipulations I suggest > you look at my package Algebra_with_Sympy > <https://gutow.github.io/Algebra_with_Sympy/algebra_with_sympy.html> because > the plain vanilla Eq class you are using can collapse to True or False > unexpectedly. Algebra_with_Sympy implements an additional equation class > that will not collapse. Along with many convenience tools for doing step > wise algebra in IPython environments (including Jupyter notebooks, with > typeset expressions). There is no color coding tools in Algebra_with_Sympy, > but if you are interested in collaborating, I think it would not be a > difficult addition. > > Regards, > Jonathan > > On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 7:50:51 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello 🙋♂️ >> >> I've been experimenting with using colors for symbols in equations: >> >> [image: Untitled.png] >> >> First I display the list of equations. >> `values` is a dict of symbols and their numerical values. >> `want` is the symbol I want to solve for. >> >> `display_equations_`: >> shows the `values` symbols in green >> shows the `want` symbol in red >> >> I then solve the system of equations for the wanted symbol. >> >> The result is displayed: >> red on the left >> only greens on the right >> >> Question: >> Is there already a library out there for this? >> Just wanted to review similar projects if there are any. >> >> Thank you! >> Ed >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/a5b15a9d-118d-4965-91ac-12dc39ab95efn%40googlegroups.com.
