[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Phillip M. Feldmanpfeld...@verizon.net wrote: I'd like to be able to calculate symbolic Sums (finite and infinite). From searches of this discussion group, it's clear that this can be done, but I can't find any relevant documentation.  Any pointers will be

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Vinzent Steinberg
On Jul 30, 2:52 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: We are missing good documentation for this, but look here for tons of examples how to evaluate sums symbolically and numerically: sympy/concrete/tests/test_sums_products.py Ondrej BTW: What about using sum_ or Sum instead of

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Vinzent Steinbergvinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jul 30, 2:52 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: We are missing good documentation for this, but look here for tons of examples how to evaluate sums symbolically and numerically:

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Feldman
Something must be missing from that URL (I've tried various prefixes, but couldn't make any of them work). Phillip We are missing good documentation for this, but look here for tons of examples how to evaluate sums symbolically and numerically: sympy/concrete/tests/test_sums_products.py

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Feldman
I hate underscores, but Sum with a capital S seems reasonable. When doing the import, one could choose to import SymPy.sum as Sum, but it would be more convenient to be able to do 'from SymPy import *' and get everything at one shot. BTW: What about using sum_ or Sum instead of overwriting

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Phillip M. Feldmanpfeld...@verizon.net wrote: Something must be missing from that URL (I've tried various prefixes, but couldn't make any of them work). I mean the path in the sympy checkout or tarball. Ondrej Phillip We are missing good documentation

[sympy] Re: documentation for Sum?

2009-07-30 Thread James Pearson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Phillip M. Feldman pfeld...@verizon.netwrote: I hate underscores, but Sum with a capital S seems reasonable. When doing the import, one could choose to import SymPy.sum as Sum, but it would be more convenient to be able to do 'from SymPy import *' and get