[Python-ideas] [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

Philipp A. flying-sheep at web.de
Fri Mar 14 16:29:02 CET 2014


well, on linux, everyone has “°”.

on american layouts, it’s AltGr+Shift+0, I think.

also i think it’s one reason why you americans love your funny imperial
units so much: you can’t even *type* “23°C” if you’re not on linux.


2014-03-14 16:16 GMT+01:00 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:

> On 14.03.2014 15:56, Robert Kern wrote:
> > On 2014-03-14 14:49, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >> Where on earth is the degree sign on my keyboard? (Don't answer. It's a
> >> rhetorical question.)
> >
> > To be fair to Marc-Andre, there is a key for this right on his keyboard.
> It is we benighted
> > Americans who lack it.
> >
> >   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_keyboard_layout
>
> The keyboard is indeed where I got the idea from :-)
>
> I didn't know that it's not available on US keyboards; only German
> and French keyboard appear to have a key for it:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Keyboard_entry
>
> Ok, enough bike shedding for today :-)
>
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