Can one do Symbolic Math in Python, as done in Matlab?

Question

i want to display an equation of this form: ax^2 + bx + c, where a, b and c are numeric input. how can this be done?

also how can one do x to a power of 2 (x squared)?

thank you

Answer 1

I think you'll find the SymPy library helpful. You can read more about it here: http://www.sympy.org/en/index.html