Hi, I'm writing some code where I sometimes give a function mathematical objects, and want it to run latex() on them -- and sometimes I give it a string of LaTeX code and want the function to leave it alone.
I can typecheck the inputs, but I understand that's not Pythonic. The
problem seems to be that you can run latex() on a LatexExpr -- but
that's basically never what you want.
Here's my idea: running latex() on a LatexExpr object should raise a
ValueError. Then you can do:
try:
foo = latex(bar)
except ValueError:
foo = bar
which seems more Pythonic than
if isistance(bar, basestring):
foo = bar
else:
foo = latex(bar)
If you really want to do latex() to a LatexExpr, just run str() on it
first.
Perhaps a simpler alternative would be that latex() on a LatexExpr
doesn't do anything -- it's just the identity.
Thoughts?
Dan
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