Multivariate symbolics

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Consider this piece of code:

sage: n=4    # dimension of state-space
sage: x = polygens(QQ, ['x'+str(i) for i in [1..n]]); x    # vector of state variables
(x1, x2, x3, x4)

There is a handy keyword with formal power series, the number of generators (num_gens), and it works like:

sage: PowerSeriesRing(QQ, 'x', num_gens=5)
Multivariate Power Series Ring in x0, x1, x2, x3, x4 over Rational Field

There is a kind of analogue with polynomials, but not keyworded:

sage: PolynomialRing(QQ, 'x', 5)
Multivariate Polynomial Ring in x0, x1, x2, x3, x4 over Rational Field

Is it possible to use any of these to define a vector of polynomial variables in the object x as the beginning (but without list comprehension)?

As a side note, i think the var constructor also lacks a vector form?

sage: var(['x'+str(i) for i in [1..n]])
(x1, x2, x3, x4)

This could be useful to simplify constructions as:

sage: A = matrix(SR, [['a'+str(i)+str(j) for j in [1..n]] for i in [1..n]]); A

[a11 a12 a13 a14]
[a21 a22 a23 a24]
[a31 a32 a33 a34]
[a41 a42 a43 a44]

In Matlab this is A = sym('a', n), but i didn't find a similar shortcut in Sage.