dennis.rose...@gmail.com wrote: > I am teaching a course for using a variety of software for > mathematics, and I am teaching a bit of Python. > > I just downloaded sympy-0.6.4, but have never used it before. > (I have done other Python programming) > > I had planned to present something on sympy but I cannot get it to > work at all---either on my XP Windows machine or in our Linux Lab. > > My import sympy command fails. > > For example on Windows I get: > > > Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit > (Intel)] on win32 > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>>> from sympy import Symbol, cos > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> > from sympy import Symbol, cos > File "C:\Python30\lib\site-packages\sympy\__init__.py", line 23, in > <module> > from sympy.core import * > File "C:\Python30\lib\site-packages\sympy\core\__init__.py", line 21 > exec '%s = _cls()' % (_n) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Actually the above is with idle > > I get almost the same message from command line in Windows except the > carat is in a slightly different location: > > File "C:\Python30\lib\site-packages\sympy\core\__init__.py", line 21 > exec '%s = _cls()' % (_n)\ > ^ > > I get the same message in our Linux lab. >
sympy does not yet work with python3. You can either get a previous python version, or help us porting to python3 (see the issue tracker) > > Dennis Roseman > Department of Mathematics > University of Iowa > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
