Tuesday, June 19, 2007

SymPy 0.4.1 released, with windows installer

This is the first release to include SymPy Plot.

0.4.1 source tarball
0.4.1 windows installer
SymPy homepage
Changelog

PyOpenGL is required for SymPy plotting support. While *nix users should have no problem (apt-get install python-opengl), Windows users will find it difficult, if not impossible, to use PyOpenGL with Python 2.5. I recommend setting up your Python environment as follows:
  1. Install Python 2.4.4 to C:\Python24 (the default location)
    I normally like to install all of my programs in C:\Program Files, but unfortunately PyOpenGL depends on the default install path.
  2. Install Numeric-23.7.win32-py2.4.exe
  3. Install numarray-1.1.1.win32-py2.4.exe
  4. Install PyOpenGL-2.0.2.01.py2.4-numpy23.exe
  5. Install sympy-0.4.1.win32.exe
  6. >>> from sympy import Symbol
    >>> from sympy.modules.graphing import Plot
    >>> x = Symbol('x')
    >>> Plot(x**2, [x, -1, 1, 10])


If you get a dll not found error relating to GLUT, obtain glut32.dll and put it in C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\OpenGL.

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