sorry if this's off topic, but here goes: i'm writing a program in python to do varius math things. factoring, radicals, etc. but my major limitation is that it can't do anything with algebra equations. 2x^2+3x+4x-x+3y etc... would a regular expression be the answer for breaking these down into there component parts? or do I need a full-blown parser for doing that? probably the parser - but i'm not sure if any python based solutions exist. they do, but I'm not sure if they are what i want. i don't want to do any complex coding. this's just a spare-time project for getting homework done faster, and i don't want to spend hours and hours on it. it's currently topped almost 10k, but most of that are the docs contained in one very long tripple-quoted string. and all this coming from the guy who previously hated python without really trying it first...
