A common joke among Python programmers is that the interactive mode works great as a desk calculator. Here are the reasons this is close to reality. If you use a handheld calculator, you may have ...

An alternative to using NumPy is SymPy, a computer algebra library for Python. SymPy operates on symbols the way a numeric calculator or regular Python program works on numbers. For graphing ...

The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain of expressions. The other is to store values to match as keys in a dictionary, then use the values ...

I responded with something along the lines of "I don't actually use a calculator ... value is the one I want. So why is python better than a calculator? A few reasons. First, I can save this ...