Re: Issue with symbolic package on Octave 4.2.1 on windows 10 PC

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2017-10-01 02:34 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> Hmm.. I'm just a user in this case and am not sure what the issue is. I 
> have octave 4.2.1 running on win10. Have python 3.6.2 and sympy 
> installed, then installed symbolic package. All works fine. Colin, is 
> python2 okay?

Python 2 should be fine.

Anoop: can use test within the Octave GUI?  How are you starting Octave? 
 I remember some strange issues from a long time ago, something about 
running octave.exe instead of using octave.bat.

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Based on your detailed output (thanks!), python appears to be working 
correctly.  It looks like some kind of newline problem...  Considering 
the output before the error message:

> > A =
> > {
> >   [1,1] =
> > Communication established.
> >
> >   [1,2] =
> > 1.1.1
> >
> >   [1,3] =
> > 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul  4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
> >
> > }

Those are as they should be, except it looks like each string has a 
extraneous newline appended.  The "out" variable looks wrong too: on my 
system it has things like "<f>Communication established.</f>" but on 
Anoop's machine:

> > <item>
> > <f>
> > 1003
> > </f>
> > <f>
> > Communication established.
> > </f>
> > </item>

My first reaction is no one has tested the combination of Windows and 
Python2.  But that seems unlikely; the wiki [1] explicitly mentions 
Python 2.

https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/wiki/Notes-on-Windows-installation

best,
Colin