GNU Octave, version 4.2.1 Copyright (C) 2017 John W. Eaton and others. This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type 'warranty'. Octave was configured for "x86_64-w64-mingw32". Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/get-involved.html Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports. For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'. >> pkg load symbolic >> syms x OctSymPy v2.6.0: this is free software without warranty, see source. Initializing communication with SymPy using a popen2() pipe. Some output from the Python subprocess (pid 9436) might appear next. Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> 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)] } out = 1003 Communication established. 1003 1.1.1 1003 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] Closing the Python pipe... error: ipc_popen2: something unexpected has gone wrong in starting python error: called from python_ipc_popen2 at line 138 column 7 python_ipc_driver at line 59 column 13 python_cmd at line 164 column 9 valid_sym_assumptions at line 38 column 10 assumptions at line 82 column 7 syms at line 97 column 13 >>