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Comment #3 on issue 1924 by smichr: Eq() gets .as_basic() method
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1924
This isn't a new proposal for a new function, so please look beyond the
name...or
think of it this way: there are ints and there are Integers and there are
basics and
Basics. Eq and Poly are Basic but not basic. Here (including my own) are
places such
definitions already appear:
core\basic.py: def as_basic(self):
core\relational.py: def as_basic(self):
polys\algebratools.py: def as_basic(f):
polys\numberfields.py: def as_basic(self, x=None):
polys\polytools.py: def as_basic(f, *gens):
As to the point, it's sugar (that you don't have to use if you don't like)
which
allows you to replace:
if isinstance(eq, Eq):
eq = eq.lhs - eq.rhs
with
eq = eq.as_basic()
And the point (besides cleaner code) is to be able to put this at the head
of
routines where it matters and know (like when using S(expr) at the head of
a routine)
that from that point on you are using a normal expression--a basic
Basic--not an Eq.
And for some routines it is important to have the equation in that form.
For example,
in ode and solve if you simplify an Eq() nothing is going to happen:
from sympy import *
var('x')
x
simplify(x*(x-1))
-x + x**2
simplify(Eq(x*(x-1)))
-x*(1 - x) == 0
Please reconsider. You can see the commit for the several places that this
has been
utilized in existing code.
Seeing no "second opinion" label for the review process, I simply put this
back to
NeedsReview.
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