Re: [sympy] sympify wolfram alt text failed

2010-12-17 Thread Aaron S. Meurer
There is already some function in sympy/parsing/mathematica.py that is supposed to handle the spaces. As far as I remember, though, it isn't integrated in sympify, (and also it could use some improvement). +1 for better parsers for other computer algebra systems. A good Maple parser would b

[sympy] sympify wolfram alt text failed

2010-12-17 Thread smichr
I copied an alt field of the expression displayed at wolfram alpha. It contained escaped slashes so S() failed. Perhaps S could filter those out: h[5] >>> S('1\/2') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "sympy\core\sympify.py", line 214, in sympify return ast_parser.