Re: [Edu-sig] the string type (was: making types matter (notes for beginners))

2019-01-29 Thread Wes Turner
u"Unicode " r"raw string" f"f-{string}" >From https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html : >>> "\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA}" # Using the character name '\u0394' >>> "\u0394" # Using a 16-bit hex value '\u0394' >>> "\U0394" # Using a 32-bit

Re: [Edu-sig] the string type (was: making types matter (notes for beginners))

2019-01-29 Thread Wes Turner
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, kirby urner wrote: > > Thanks Wes, especially for the URLs relating type theory to "HoTT" by way > category theory. > > My friend and co-podcaster Alex, a math-physics-philo guy, has been > pushing me to bone up in that area [1]. Those links really helped. >

[Edu-sig] the string type (was: making types matter (notes for beginners))

2019-01-28 Thread kirby urner
Thanks Wes, especially for the URLs relating type theory to "HoTT" by way category theory. My friend and co-podcaster Alex, a math-physics-philo guy, has been pushing me to bone up in that area [1]. Those links really helped. I'm squeezing some of this in while reading the OSCON 2019 proposals,