> 2007/7/7, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > So I propose that the only symbolic variables that are predefined
> > are x (since it's so useful to have this predefined), I (=sqrt(-1)),
> > and e (=2.7...).
I myself prefer to import everything by hand in Python. Thus the sage
module can have many things (even all letters) preloaded, because
there cannot be any confusion -- I want to use it like this:
from sage import e, I, sin, x
print I*sin(x)
and actually even the "x" is kind of confusing, in SymPy we need to
create it by hand, like "x=Symbol('x')". Then there can be some very
limited environment, that imports some things automatically, for
example "isympy" (which is just ipython) in our project does
from sympy import *
x = Symbol("x")
y = Symbol("y")
z = Symbol("z")
at the beginning automatically, so that one can use it interactively.
But for any serious working, I prefer to do it by hand from my own
script. Like any other python library.
Ondrej
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