GNU Octave, version 4.0.0 Copyright (C) 2015 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 "i686-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 >> sympref IPC system Resetting the octsympy communication mechanism Forcing the system() octsympy communication mechanism >> sympref display flat >> syms x y ...debug lines >> y=2*x pydebug: pydebug: b'1003PYTHON: successful variable import' pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: 1003 PYTHON: successful variable import pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: b'1020Integer(2)11222' pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: 1020 Integer(2) 1 1 2 2 2 pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: b'1003PYTHON: successful variable import' pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: 1003 PYTHON: successful variable import pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: b"1020Mul(Integer(2), Symbol('x'))11< /f>2*x2*x2\xe2\x8b\x85x" pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: 1020 Mul(Integer(2), Symbol('x')) 1 1 2*x 2*x 2\u22c5x pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: b'1003PYTHON: Error in var export' pydebug: pydebug: pydebug: 1003 PYTHON: Error in var export pydebug: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "", line 2, in File "", line 168, in octoutput_drv File "C:\Users\Jari-Pekka\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u22c5' in position 170: character m aps to status = 127 out = 1003 PYTHON: successful variable import 1003 PYTHON: Error in var export 9999 <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'> 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u22c5' in position 170: character maps to <undefined > error: system() call failed! error: called from python_ipc_sysoneline at line 92 column 5 python_ipc_driver at line 34 column 15 python_cmd at line 138 column 9 mtimes at line 42 column 5 >>