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Are there any easy ways to convert mathematical formulas to Python code?
Perhaps translators, web reference, specific book chapters, anything ~
For regular expressions there are programs such as Kodos and sites such as pythonregex.com, so I was hoping there would be something similar for formula notation and Python.
No, this isn’t possible in general. There are mathematical functions that aren’t computable (for example, see wikipedia/Halting_problem). There are other mathematical functions where it’s just not obvious how to code them up (consider a difficult integral or differential equations). There are many books written on finding numerical solutions to these sorts of problems (you can find some links here: wikipedia/Numerical_analysis).
For simple cases, you can transcribe mathematical formulae directly, but any automated means of translation would require a formal language for writing mathematical formulae in what would be a programming language in itself. This would beg the question, since you would be trading writing mathematical formulae in one language with writing them in another.