On 5/20/2021 5:41 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Matt del Valle writes:
> Fully agreed on the sentiment that we shouldn't treat compile-time
> literals differently from runtime operations.
But as you just pointed out, we do. Literals are evaluated at compile
time, operations at runtime.
(PEP 501 is titled "General purpose string interpolation")
It's unlikely that the SC would reconsider PEP 501 as-is.
Probably the best way forward is to consider the existing PEP 501 as food
for thought, and write up a new proposal that aims to solve some of the
same problems in a way that
This thread kind of took a turn to bikeshed, and thats probably my fault, I
apologize.
I would like to get back to the original question which is, can we revisit
PEP 501? What can I do to get this to happen? What is the process for
revisiting existing deferred PEPs?
Nick
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at
> If there was some way to make
>@syms x, y
> translate to x, y = syms('x, y') or something like that then that
> would be great. Maybe that doesn't have broad enough use for Python
> the language but I would certainly add something like that if I was
> providing a SymPy UI based on a modified
