Seems to work fine for me locally. Tests pass. Will probably do this myself as part of subliminal work.
Note that 1.6 is out and officially supports python 3.8. Of course the main problem is to sort out all the dependencies first.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=40eae544d0639e2a9a208d590bd0b93ce1ab65a9 commit 40eae544d0639e2a9a208d590bd0b93ce1ab65a9 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-02 18:58:52 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-02 18:58:53 +0000 dev-python/sympy: bump to 1.6.1 * Bump to 1.6.1 * Add Python 3.8, 3.9 * Unrestrict tests (all pass here) Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/722546 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.1, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> dev-python/sympy/Manifest | 1 + dev-python/sympy/sympy-1.6.1.ebuild | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)