Mon, 23. Oct 2006

MAGMA Online Calculator

In case you haven’t noticed there is a free MAGMA Online Calculator (which is based on code by SAGE’s William Stein btw.). Also in case you haven’t noticed Python has pretty neat http support built-in. So some lines like

import urllib
cmd = urllib.quote(cmd)
url = "http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/?input=%s"%cmd
fp = urllib.urlopen(url)
answer = fp.read()

allow you to use that online calculator in your Python program if you are willing to accept the horrible lag and the 20s timeout. If you put a couple of pre-/post-processing lines around it you end up with something somehow usable. Of course, you could also use it as a fall back to interface (a stripped down) MAGMA from SAGE if there is no local MAGMA installation available. But that would probably only cause bad vibes with the MAGMA people.

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