[jlukecarlson]

This seems like a pretty helpful educational tool — you could sprinkle it in a project's documentation to help clarify the exact formulas being used.

I could also imagine people using this if they aren't that comfortable with LaTeX and want an easier way to write it. They could just write out their formulas with Python, call @handcalc() to get the string output, then post it in their tex documents.

[mhh__]

Maybe, but if you can do Python I cannot imagine you not being able to do LaTeX. The equations are the easy part.

[macintux]

It’s still one more thing to learn. There are lots of things I could do that aren’t on my priority list.