Introduction and Question

[szele...@iit.edu]

Hello,

My name is Sara and I'm a post-doc in the Applied Mathematics department at IIT (in Chicago). 

One of my thesis projects, I tinkered quite a bit with Sympy before developing a package for Macaulay2. I'm interested in making an analogous package in Sympy; however, to do so, I need to be able to define polynomial term order using a weight vector. It is not entirely clear if this is possible. Has anyone else done this?

[Kalevi Suominen]

Hi,

There are currently only half a dozen standard orders, and a product order for the construction some non-standard orders. However, I believe that it should not be hard to define a new subclass of MonomialOrder (say, WeightOrder) that would accept weights for different symbols (as a dict, for example).

Kalevi Suominen

[Pulkit Arora]

Hi! I'm Pulkit Arora a 2nd year undergraduate, I came across sympy a week ago and i was having some trouble finding my way in the Huge codebase SymPy has, can someone help me out a bit?

Also, Is it a good idea to get a grasp of sympy/core package or should i just read its docs and try to solve issues in other packages?

Thanks in advance!

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 07:20, Pulkit Arora <pulkitar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi! I'm Pulkit Arora a 2nd year undergraduate, I came across sympy a week ago and i was having some trouble finding my way in the Huge codebase SymPy has, can someone help me out a bit?

Hi Pulkit. What exactly are you looking for?

> Also, Is it a good idea to get a grasp of sympy/core package or should i just read its docs and try to solve issues in other packages?
> Thanks in advance!

I guess that depends what you want to do. If you're looking to improve
SymPy maybe you should try it out before looking at the code to see
which bits you would like to use and which you think can be improved.

--
Oscar

[Agboola Mukhtar]

Welcome Pulkit,
First I suggest you familiarize yourself a bit with sympy before jumping into the codebase. Check out the link below to get started:

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/introduction-to-contributing

It contains the basic things you will need to get started.
Good luck.

[Sampark Sharma]

Hi, I, Sampark Sharma, am a first year undergraduate. Just saw the the repo yesterday, found it interesting and would be happy if I'm able to contribute towards this community. Right now playing with the tools/functions in it.