Why are complex numbers in Python denoted with 'j' instead of 'i'?

Question

I know this is an electrical engineering convention, but I\'m still wondering why it was chosen for Python. I don\'t know other programming languages with complex-number lit

Answer 1

To answer "does anyone know any [other programming languages with complex-number literals] that do use i?"

Yes, C++ since the C++14 standard. You have to use the right namespace though:

#include 
using namespace std::complex_literals;

std::complex z = 2 + 3i;