Hi

I have been trying out sympy, working through the examples in the
documentation.  All went well, and was impressive, until I tried to
factor polynomials.  The example in the documentation was

f = 4*x**4 + 8*x**3 + 77*x**2 + 18*x + 153

and factor(f) gave  (9 + 4*x**2)*(17 + 2*x + x**2)  as expected.

But then factor(f, gaussian=True) or factor(f, extension=I) should
give according the documentation:

4*(x - 3*I/2)*(x + 3*I/2)*(x - 4*I + 1)*(x + 4*I + 1)

Instead I get the same result as before, ie (9 + 4*x**2)*(17 + 2*x +
x**2)

I then backed up a bit and tried the first example

factor(6*x - 10)

The documentation says this gives 2⋅(3⋅x - 5).  Instead it returned
-10 + 6*x.

What am I doing wrong?  I am using v0.6.7, installed via
easy_install.  I have tried importing sympy into regular python (2.6),
and also using isympy, and the results are the same.

Any advice will be most welcome!

Thanks

Andy

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