On 1 October 2012 21:51, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
# Parameters α = 1 β = 0.1 γ = 1.5 δ = 0.075
# Initial conditions xₒ = 10 yₒ = 5 Zₒ = xₒ, yₒ
Those examples would be a lot more compelling if there was an acceptable way to input those characters. Maybe we could support some kind of input method that enabled LaTeX style math notation as used by scientists for writing equations in papers?
Sympy already has a few of the basic TeX concepts. I imagine that something like Sympy notebooks (a browser-based interface) might one day gain support for this. A readline-ish method to do it would be a great extension to isympy (since it already works for output): $ isympy IPython console for SymPy 0.7.1.rc1 (Python 2.7.3-64-bit) (ground types: python) In [1]: Symbol('beta') Out[1]: β In [2]: Symbol('c_1') Out[2]: c₁ Oscar