Ubuntu Manpage: isympy - interactive shell for SymPy

NAME

       isympy - interactive shell for SymPy

SYNOPSIS

       isympy [-c | --console] [-p ENCODING | --pretty ENCODING] [-t TYPE | --types TYPE] [-o ORDER | --order
              ORDER] [-q | --quiet] [-d | --doctest] [-C | --no-cache] [-a | --auto] [-D | --debug] [ -- |
              PYTHONOPTIONS]
       isympy [ {-h | --help} | {-v | --version} ]

DESCRIPTION

       isympy  is  a  Python  shell  for  SymPy. It is just a normal python shell (ipython shell if you have the
       ipython package installed) that executes the following commands so that you don't have to:

       >>> from __future__ import division
       >>> from sympy import *
       >>> x, y, z = symbols("x,y,z")
       >>> k, m, n = symbols("k,m,n", integer=True)

       So starting isympy is equivalent to starting python (or ipython) and  executing  the  above  commands  by
       hand.  It is intended for easy and quick experimentation with SymPy. For more complicated programs, it is
       recommended to write a script and import things explicitly (using the "from sympy import sin,  log,  Sym‐
       bol, ..." idiom).

OPTIONS

-c SHELL, --console=SHELL
Use the specified shell (python or ipython) as console backend instead of the default one (ipython
if present or python otherwise).

Example: isympy -c python

SHELL could be either 'ipython' or 'python'

-p ENCODING, --pretty=ENCODING
Setup pretty printing in SymPy. By default, the most pretty, unicode printing is enabled (if the
terminal supports it). You can use less pretty ASCII printing instead or no pretty printing at
all.

Example: isympy -p no

ENCODING must be one of 'unicode', 'ascii' or 'no'.

-t TYPE, --types=TYPE
Setup the ground types for the polys. By default, gmpy ground types are used if gmpy2 or gmpy is
installed, otherwise it falls back to python ground types, which are a little bit slower. You can
manually choose python ground types even if gmpy is installed (e.g., for testing purposes).

Note that sympy ground types are not supported, and should be used only for experimental purposes.

Note that the gmpy1 ground type is primarily intended for testing; it the use of gmpy even if
gmpy2 is available.

This is the same as setting the environment variable SYMPY_GROUND_TYPES to the given ground type
(e.g., SYMPY_GROUND_TYPES='gmpy')

The ground types can be determined interactively from the variable sympy.polys.do‐
mains.GROUND_TYPES inside the isympy shell itself.

Example: isympy -t python

TYPE must be one of 'gmpy', 'gmpy1' or 'python'.

-o ORDER, --order=ORDER
Setup the ordering of terms for printing. The default is lex, which orders terms lexicographically
(e.g., x**2 + x + 1). You can choose other orderings, such as rev-lex, which will use reverse lex‐
icographic ordering (e.g., 1 + x + x**2).

Note that for very large expressions, ORDER='none' may speed up printing considerably, with the
tradeoff that the order of the terms in the printed expression will have no canonical order

Example: isympy -o rev-lax

ORDER must be one of 'lex', 'rev-lex', 'grlex', 'rev-grlex', 'grevlex', 'rev-grevlex', 'old', or
'none'.

-q, --quiet
Print only Python's and SymPy's versions to stdout at startup, and nothing else.

-d, --doctest
Use the same format that should be used for doctests. This is equivalent to 'isympy -c python -p
no'.

-C, --no-cache
Disable the caching mechanism. Disabling the cache may slow certain operations down considerably.
This is useful for testing the cache, or for benchmarking, as the cache can result in deceptive
benchmark timings.

This is the same as setting the environment variable SYMPY_USE_CACHE to 'no'.

-a, --auto
Automatically create missing symbols. Normally, typing a name of a Symbol that has not been in‐
stantiated first would raise NameError, but with this option enabled, any undefined name will be
automatically created as a Symbol. This only works in IPython 0.11.

Note that this is intended only for interactive, calculator style usage. In a script that uses
SymPy, Symbols should be instantiated at the top, so that it's clear what they are.

This will not override any names that are already defined, which includes the single character
letters represented by the mnemonic QCOSINE (see the "Gotchas and Pitfalls" document in the docu‐
mentation). You can delete existing names by executing "del name" in the shell itself. You can see
if a name is defined by typing "'name' in globals()".

The Symbols that are created using this have default assumptions. If you want to place assump‐
tions on symbols, you should create them using symbols() or var().

Finally, this only works in the top level namespace. So, for example, if you define a function in
isympy with an undefined Symbol, it will not work.

-D, --debug
Enable debugging output. This is the same as setting the environment variable SYMPY_DEBUG to
'True'. The debug status is set in the variable SYMPY_DEBUG within isympy.

-- PYTHONOPTIONS
These options will be passed on to ipython (1) shell. Only supported when ipython is being used
(standard python shell not supported).

Two dashes (--) are required to separate PYTHONOPTIONS from the other isympy options.

For example, to run iSymPy without startup banner and colors:

isympy -q -c ipython -- --colors=NoColor

-h, --help
Print help output and exit.

-v, --version
Print isympy version information and exit.

FILES

       ${HOME}/.sympy-history
              Saves the history of commands when using the python shell as backend.

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