On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Aaron S. Meurer<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Vinzent Steinberg wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6 Aug., 21:35, "Aaron S. Meurer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes, you should avoid using the names I, E, S, N, C, or O (uppercase
>>> only) for Symbols because they are predefined by SymPy.  
>>> Seehttp://docs.sympy.org/gotchas.html#id2
>>
>> The new assumptions system (yet to be released) also uses Q.
>>
>>> By the way, you can use the mnemonic COSINE to remember these.
>>
>> Nice one! But it will be significantly harder to find another mnemonic
>> with a Q. :)
> I actually owe that one to Chris Smith (see issue 1552).  We need to
> add a U function.  That gives us at least QUNICE SO 
> (http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=cosinequ&t=1000&a=n
> ).  :-)
>
> By the way, whenever I get around to it (like when I am finished with
> this ODE stuff), I will send in a patch adding Q to the gotchas.txt
> file.  I didn't know about the Q addition.

Just mention there that this is just a namespace problem.

In fact, for me this is never a problem, because I don't use

from sympy import *

and I discourage anyone to use it. Just do:

form sympy import I, whatever, you, need

and use it. Then there can't be any problems.

Ondrej

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