Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> Can you now implement the letter 'i' to act as an > imaginary unit? Is that possible? Yes, it's possible; however, the developers do not think it is worthwhile. > If it's possible in MATLAB, why not have both 'j' and 'i' > in Python as well? Python does some things differently that MATLAB. One design choice is to avoid global configurations (such as number of places displayed in a float) because modules written by different people make make different assumptions or may compete for a preferred setting. Let's try to end this thread now. It's a bit of no-win situtation. None of the core devs see enough possible benefit to warrant the disruption it would cause. Years of Python being used in the scientific community has shown that the current use of 'j' has not been a problem. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10562> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
