How to do a fancy print in ipython

[Macias]

Hi, I'm trying to pprint() a variable that I call barphi. What I want to get is

$\bar{\phi}$

when printed as pprint(barphi).

I try 

barphy = Symbol('\bar{phi}')

 but it does not work. Any help? Thanks in advance.

[Aaron Meurer]

Python converts \ + character in strings as escaping. The \b in your string becomes a backspace (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_control_code_chart).

You need to either escape the \, i.e., use '\\bar{\\phi}$', or, much easier, if you don't care about escaping, use a raw string, which just means to put an r in front of the quotes, like r'\bar{\phi}'.

If you want to get LaTeX, pprint() will not do it. You should use init_printing() to enable latex printing.

Aaron Meurer

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[Julien Rioux]

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 11:42:19 UTC-4, Aaron Meurer wrote:

Python converts \ + character in strings as escaping. The \b in your string becomes a backspace (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_control_code_chart).

You need to either escape the \, i.e., use '\\bar{\\phi}$', or, much easier, if you don't care about escaping, use a raw string, which just means to put an r in front of the quotes, like r'\bar{\phi}'.

If you want to get LaTeX, pprint() will not do it. You should use init_printing() to enable latex printing.

You can also name your Symbol "phibar" and it will correspond to r"\bar{\phi}" in the LaTeX representation.
Cheers,
Julien