Solve for all values of a variable

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If you want to match coefficients of like terms, you could do something like

from collections import defaultdict
def solve_matched_polynomials(eq, coeff_vars):
    # get the non-coefficient variables
    vv = sorted(set(eq.variables()).difference(coeff_vars))
    # make sure they're polynomials
    assert all(eq.lhs().is_polynomial(v) and eq.rhs().is_polynomial(v) for v in vv)
    d = defaultdict(Integer)
    # loop over each term in the equation
    for term in (eq.lhs().operands())+(-(eq.rhs())).operands():
        # get the degrees of the variables
        vsig = tuple(term.degree(v) for v in vv)
        # find the non-variable part
        d[vsig] += term/(prod(v**vs for v,vs in zip(vv, vsig)))
    # get solutions with free variables
    return solns = solve(d.values(), coeff_vars)

which will return the standard free variables form

sage: solve_matched_polynomials(5*a*x^2*y+b*x+y == 4*c*x**2*y-d*y, [a,b,c,d])
[[a == 4/5*r66, b == 0, c == r66, d == -1]]

and then if you really wanted to eliminate the free variables, you could.