alternative to sympy's simplify function

Question

I've been using the simplify function in Sympy to simplify some long complicated equations, but it's not proving sufficient, as it frequently does not simplify things as much as possible, giving my program numerical errors when it comes to solving the equations.

Does anyone know of any other symbolic engines with a simplify function that can be used instead?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe you use python's subprocess module to run maxima on behalf of your python program? This is what maxima-mode on Emacs does, just do something similar. Start maxima, keep file handles to it's input/output, feed it with equations and let it mangle them to your desire (Maxima has lots of equation-changing functions), and read back the result from the output file handle.

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