This tells Python to import SymPy into the main namespace, define a symbolic x variable, and set up "pretty printing." This will make the output look more like it does in a math textbook.

Python is convenient and flexible, yet notably slower than other languages for raw computational speed. The Python ecosystem has compensated with tools that make crunching numbers at scale in ...

So, using Python data types, you get: 6.2 -> 6.2000000000000002 Whereas the sympy data types give: S(6.2) -> 6.20000000000000 Expressions are immutable in sympy. Any functions applied to them do not ...

There’s lots to do in this edition of the Python Report: Do more than one thing with Python’s async. Do the math faster in Python with NumPy.