Hello Sympy Developers and Interested People! First off, Thank you very much for your great effort and success - Sympy is an absolutely awesome piece of software! I am using it for the better of 2 years now and did some fun stuff, but I still haven't really decided on a coherent way of writing equations. The problem is that Eq() is not an equation in the mathematical sense as the following examples should demonstrate:
t = S('t') f = Function('f')(t) g = Function('g')(t) equation = Eq(f,g+1) equation2 = equation-1 equation3 = equation.diff(t) equation4 = equation.subs(equation) # this I can do with subs(*equation.args) Having a symbolic comparison of terms seems useful to me, so I totally get equation and Eq and their meaning. However, an equation class satsifying the mathematics for the above examples seems to be absent in sympy. What I am proposing is to think of a way that equations are made a basic building block in mathematics and imho should be likewise in a mathematics tool. That said, I know ways to do all of the above, but it is really not intuitive to have every expression in a "x-y=0" form. I would think that next to nobody actually thinks like that. And the code is hard to subsitute, because you need to do eq = g+1-f eq.subs(f,eq+f) or even worse looking use solve. Another big thing is printing. Printing "x-y" is very hard to read and you need to explain this unconfort to any new user. Having "x=y" would be just as everyone learns in maths. Programmatically I don't think that a new equation class, or the changes to Eq() would be a huge deal. But programming it myself and then using a non-standard for something as standard as an equation seems really bad practice. What do you guys think about that? Thanks again Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/464c0dd6-bd2c-445f-942a-4fe75f1f91bc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.