On 1 August 2017 at 11:45, <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past, I had a shell alias for sympy which asks for the sympy > profile, but obviously this is not supported any longer. >
I think sympy still has 'isympy' to launch an IPython console with sympy already set up. > Creating a dedicated sympy kernel as you suggest seems possible but a bit > heavy-handed for such a simple thing (and nothing I can tell my students in > order to lower the barrier of entry...). > It's very light in computer terms - just a couple of tiny files on your disk. I agree it's not very convenient for students, though. I can't think of anything you can do to make it simpler for them than importing and calling a function. > Yes, I do need to switch profiles as I am using both pylab and sympy > interactively. Funny enough, ipython has a builtin magic for pylab, but > none for sympy. I am not sure how much this forum is connected to ipython, > but that would be an obvious trivial thing to add that would more or less > solve the issue of getting a working sympy console quickly in the most > obvious way. > The %pylab magic is gently deprecated, and I doubt we'd go for a new magic command to integrate with a particular module - sorry! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAOvn4qj4yHnHGr-o_cvW-Qj%3Dk_mA2OWUdRTN%2B0pyva-Wji7xJg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
