[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On 9/9/07, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simpy is indeed an interesting package and could be useful in a future > for rewriting the > calculus package (replacing maxima) > > However. rather than incorporating it into Sage as a package, I feel > that we will need to take some of it

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread Ondrej Certik
> As an intermediate version of what you suggest, in > cases where sympy is much slower, e.g., number of partitions, > we can patch sympy at import time to use our version of that > function (in Python that sort of thing is very easy -- you can replace > any object or file-scope function in any Py

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread William Stein
On 9/9/07, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simpy is indeed an interesting package and could be useful in a future > for rewriting the > calculus package (replacing maxima) > > However. rather than incorporating it into Sage as a package, I feel > that we will need to take some of it c

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread Pablo De Napoli
Simpy is indeed an interesting package and could be useful in a future for rewriting the calculus package (replacing maxima) However. rather than incorporating it into Sage as a package, I feel that we will need to take some of it code and re-write it to fit well into Sage. This is because, Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread Ondrej Certik
> So far, from everything I've seen I think sympy + whatever > we already do in SAGE is the best way forward for > pure symbolic manipulation in SAGE. > > I'll include the latest version of sympy (version 0.5.3) in > sage-2.8.4.1 so people can take a look at it. See > >http://code.google.com/

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-09 Thread William Stein
On 9/8/07, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The idea of incorporating Ginac into Sage was discussed some time ago > > in this list. > > Now I see that in its page there is a link to some python bindings for Ginac > > > > http://pyginac.sourceforge.net/ > > > > This could be useful for

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-08 Thread Pablo De Napoli
One more comment: I see that this project is not actively maintained, in fact in its e-mail list the last e-mail is from 2005... On 9/8/07, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea of incorporating Ginac into Sage was discussed some time ago > in this list. > Now I see that in its pa

[sage-devel] Re: Python bindings for Ginac

2007-09-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
> The idea of incorporating Ginac into Sage was discussed some time ago > in this list. > Now I see that in its page there is a link to some python bindings for Ginac > > http://pyginac.sourceforge.net/ > > This could be useful for us, however they use boost rather than cython/pyrex You can also