SymPy Cheat Sheet

[Aaron S. Meurer]

I saw this message on IRC today (I was away from my machine, so I couldn't respond):

alekz joined the chat room. [10:46am]
alekz: hello [10:46am]
alekz: do you know if anyone ever created a sympy cheat sheet? [10:46am]
alekz left the chartroom. (Quit: done.) [11:01am]

I don't think we have one, but I think we should. It would just be one or two pages of a down-and-dirty reference to common functions and tasks, like:

powsimp(expr, deep=False, combine='all') - Combine common bases and exponents in an expression.
nsimplify(expr, constants=[], tolerance=None, full=False) - Find a simple formula that numerically matches the given expression.

etc.

For example, here is a LaTeX cheat sheet: http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/
and here is a Maple cheat sheet (PDF): http://math.mtsac.edu/resources/maple11_cheatsheet1.pdf

What do you think?

Aaron Meurer

[Ondrej Certik]

That is an excellent idea. Let's do it.

Ondrej

[Gokhan Sever]

Sage has nice quick references:

http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref

This one is for me vim cheatsheet (the nicest one I have ever seen)

http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

[smichr]

I've thought that having something showing a flow diagram of how
various operations change things might be useful...more visual

e.g.
type expr .as_coeff_terms() .as_numer_denom()
Atom
Rational
Integer
Real
NumberSymbol
Symbol
Add
Mul x/y (1, (x, 1/y)) (x, y)
Power
Function
Integral

etc... but filled in with pertinent expressions.

Perhaps organized by topics like
introspection

[smichr]

transformation
...?