Needed, symbolic math in Python

[Paul Rubin]

Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
> If _all_ you need are simple arithmetic operations on polynomials,
> then just go for a package with rational numbers (GMP has python
> wrappers).  A polynomial is just a vector of coefficients, and
> Numeric accepts vectors of any object type (so you get convenient
> syntax).

Does Numeric make a way to divide one polynomial by another?

It occurs to me that I'd also like to do polynomial arithmetic over
finite fields, i.e. in GF(2**n)[x] for small n.  I realize that's a new
request but I wonder if you know of anything.  Thanks.