Hi Roberto, If you have something like expr = some_function(args) where some_function creates new symbols (not found in args) then ideally some_function should also return what the newly created symbols are or some other object that can tell you them: expr, syms = some_function(args) I think that attempting to guess what symbols should be used in any context by inspecting free symbols is not a good approach.
Oscar On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 14:28, roberto franceschini <franceschini.robe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The situation is the one in which I get a sympy expression out of a function > that ends in `return my_polynomial_inRn` and now I want to pass this to > another function (e.g. to make plots or whatever) without having to know the > names of the symbols involved, which is exactly what free_symbols does for me > in this instance. > Do you see another way around this? > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:08 AM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Roberto, >> >> I already answered this on SO: >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62798213/keep-the-order-of-parameters-fixed-in-sympy-lambdify-from-free-symbols/62800716?noredirect=1#comment111075099_62800716 >> >> If you are using symarray to generate the symbols then you can get the >> list of symbols from the symarray directly and then pass those to >> lambdify. >> >> I can't think of any situation where it would be a good idea to use >> free_symbols to get the arguments to lambdify. >> >> Oscar >> >> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 08:10, roberto franceschini >> <franceschini.robe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, I have opened an issue for the input of lambdify. If you want to >> > disallow sets as inputs I think it is fair. However, It would be nice to >> > have that free_symbol can be given directly as input for lambdify, is that >> > possible? should I use something else than free_symbols for this purpose? >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:55 PM Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Can you open an issue in the issue tracker for this? I agree that sets >> >> should not be allowed. >> >> >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:08 AM Roberto <franceschini.robe...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > I have seen that lambdify wants a list for the arguments to be treated >> >> > as symbols. This list can be also give as a python set, e.g. {x,y,z }, >> >> > which is exactly what would be returned by a .free_symbol property. If >> >> > lambdify is feed a set like that of the output of .free_symbol it may >> >> > change their order in the conversion from set to list. This is done >> >> > silently and may cause major disfunction in the use of the lamdified >> >> > function because you think x is x, but is y instead and so on. >> >> > I would like to ask developers to check for the type of the lambdify >> >> > list of arguments and throw a warning to flag that a set is being >> >> > converted and that the ordering is not guaranteed. >> >> > Given that .free_symbols returns a set, not a list, this is very common >> >> > pitfall in my opinion and must be prevented. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> > Groups "sympy" group. >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> > an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/c1517b79-490b-4a1b-b526-3e3842b55fbco%40googlegroups.com. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "sympy" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KuqnjJHTObyDxK0tvaF_Frxzd-MfyQSY94v-oTUWyNAg%40mail.gmail.com. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "sympy" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJxM9JqSoqQQkYH9UUXGyXNqRtY9VHJxKByc8Fv8%2BPaqFudP6w%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxSsngVE_X-aBRYWER5sESZW-e-EnjwWcfGAhM%3D%2Beq97zQ%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJxM9Jpza%3DgRk9%3DZ2_thBS4xN_dkjCaB5PTMcz1hj8wHG_R90g%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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