degrees and radians.

[Fernando Pérez]

Steve Holden wrote:

>> I realize you have good intentions, but I truly don't think that in this
> case
>> the benefits outweigh the cost. OTOH, one could add a comment in the
>> docstrings to the effect of 'trig functions expect arguments in radians',
>> since it does seem to cause confusion among newbies.
>>
> But these would be maths newbies as well as Python newbies. The comment is a
> good idea.

Indeed I meant math newbies rather than Python newbies. Thanks for the 
clarification, that's what I had in mind but wasn't explicit enough. This can 
actually bite a very experienced programmer who simply isn't too familiar 
with math details.

Cheers,

f.