Oh sick - intervals are exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!

On Thursday, 25 July 2013 22:39:36 UTC+10, Matthew wrote:
>
>
> Since it's for my own purposes I really could represent it with nested 
>> lists/tuples, using booleans to include a value or not:
>>
>> [[(-sympy.oo, False), (-1, True)], [(0, False), (sympy.oo, True)]]
>>
>> which represents (-inf, -1] U (0, inf)
>>
>
> For this all you need is sets.  Note that they use False/True to mean 
> openness, not inclusion.
>
> In [4]: Interval(-oo, -1, True, False) + Interval(0, oo, True, True)
> Out[4]: (-∞, -1] ∪ (0, ∞)
>  
>
>> which would work fine for my purposes. However I'm pretty sure with what 
>> I plan to do I'm going to be using domains a fair bit more in the future so 
>> if I have something that is going to work with what SymPy has planned then 
>> it may help.
>>
>
> I suspect that we're overengineering things.  If all you need is to 
> represent sets then SymPy should have you covered.  If you also need to 
> attach each set to a particular symbol (like x or y) then we run into new 
> territory.
>  

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