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I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

EDIT: As an example, I would like to prove something like the $q$-binomial theorem, which says

$\sum_{k=0}^n $$\sum_{k=0}^n q^{k(k-1)/2} \binom{n}{k}_q x^k = \prod_{k=0}^{n-1} (1+q^k t)$t)$$

I would like to verify certain identities involving sums of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{k}_q$ and as such, I would like to treat the $q$-binomial coefficients as if they were symbolic in $n$ and $k$. But the version of $q$-binomial coefficients that are implemented in Sage cannot be used as a symbolic variable in $n$ and $k$ according to this thread. So, to this end I defined my own:

var('q,n,k')
qint = lambda n: sum([q^i for i in range(n)]) 
qfac = lambda n: 1 if n==0 else prod([qint(i) for i in range(1,n+1)])
qbin = lambda n,k:qfac(n)/(qfac(k)*qfac(n-k))

But if I write

sum(qbin(n,k),k,0,n)

I get the following error:

ValueError: cannot convert n + 1 to int

Is there a way to do these types of summations in Sage? I should note that, for my purposes, it would be enough to limit myself to the case when $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers.

EDIT: As an example, I would like to prove something like the $q$-binomial theorem, which says

$$\sum_{k=0}^n q^{k(k-1)/2} \binom{n}{k}_q x^k = \prod_{k=0}^{n-1} (1+q^k t)$$x)$$

EDIT2: Fixed a typo.