SCSCP

SCSCP 1.3 implementation for Python.

Description

The Symbolic Computation Software Composability Protocol (SCSCP) is a network protocol for software systems to exchange mathematical objects. Think RPC (Remote Procedure Call) for CAS (Computer Algebra Systems).

Installation

pip install scscp

Usage

This package provides a command-line SCSCP client and a base class that an SCSCP server may extend. An example implementation of an SCSCP server is also provided.

Server

The module scscp.server provides a class SCSCPServer that an SCSCP server may extend. Lower level classes are also available, for more details see the API docs.

This source distribution also contains an example server examples/demo_server.py, capable of performing very basic arithmetic operations. To run the demo server, simply run:

python examples/demo_server.py

Client

The module scscp.client provides a class SCSCPClient that an SCSCP client may extend. Lower level classes are also available, for more details see the API docs.

The package also contains a synchronous command-line client scscp.SCSCPCLI to query SCSCP servers. To connect to a server running on, e.g., localhost, type

>>> from scscp import SCSCPCLI
>>> c = SCSCPCLI('localhost')

The client automatically queries the server for the available functions, and populates the heads attribute:

>>> c.heads
{'arith1': ['minus', 'abs', 'power', 'divide', 'unary_minus', 'plus', 'times'], 'scscp2': ['get_allowed_heads', 'get_service_description', 'is_allowed_head'], 'scscp1': []}

Functions on the server can be queried via the syntax c.heads.<cd>.<func>(args) where <cd> is the name of the OpenMath content dictionary, <func> is the name of the function, and args is the list of arguments.

Integers, floats, complex numbers, booleans, strings, lists and binary data are automatically converted to and from Python native types.

>>> c.heads.arith1.power([2, 100])
1267650600228229401496703205376

The client also understands OpenMath data via the openmath package, which can be used to express more complex data.

>>> from openmath import openmath as om
>>> c.heads.arith1.power([om.OMInteger(2), om.OMInteger(100)])
1267650600228229401496703205376

To disconnect the client, simply use the quit() method.

>>> c.quit()

Contributing

The source code of this project can be found on GitHub. Please use GitHub issues and pull requests to contribute to this project.

Credits

This work is supported by OpenDreamKit.

License

This work is licensed under the MIT License, for details see the LICENSE file.