Printing a polynomial in python

Question

I\'m making a Polynomial python class and as part of that, I need to print a polynomial nicely. The class is given a list that represents the coefficients of the polynomial

Answer 1

There are several issues:

• you should start your range at 0 and not 1;
• the power should be len(self.coeffs)-1-i;
• try also to handle particular cases as numerical comparisons rather than strings substitutions (it is more efficient to work with numerical values rather than converting them to string and then detect things on strings).

I would personnaly handle [2,3,4] as 2+3x+4x^2 since it would be easier to handle more complicated computations later, but you may have good reasons to want the contrary.