Re: A symbolic package using SymPy

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Colin Macdonald
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been tinkering with making a symbolic package using the Python CAS
> SymPy.  The goal is feature parity with other symbolic packages.
>
> You can try it now, either git clone, or just download a .zip file (which
> works as a GNU Octave package).
>
> https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy
>
> Here's some examples:
>
>> pkg install octsympy-master.zip
>> pkg load octsympy
>> syms x y z a b c k
>> A = [sin(x/2) floor(exp(x*c)); ...
> acosh(x^(b*c)/pi) ceil(sin(x/gamma(x)))]
>> pretty(A)
>>
>> f = exp(-x^2);
>> F = fourier(f,x,k);
>> pretty(F)
>> g = ifourier(F,k,x);
>> simplify(f - g)
>>
>> limit(1/x, x, 0, 'left')
>
> If you have problems with the Python communication (I've only tested on
> GNU/Linux and my guess is it doesn't work out-of-box on Windows), try:
>
>> octsympy_config ipc_system
>
> I'd be happy to move everything elsewhere at some point, but for now, issue
> tracker is also at GitHub, so please give it a try and file some bugs ;-)
> Help also very much appreciated!
>
> best,
> Colin
>
> --
> Colin Macdonald
> University Lecturer in Numerical Methodologies
> Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College
> University of Oxford
>

How do you implement the communication with python? It seems via
stdout, am I right?