Can we replace the 'Derivative' terms in sympy coming from the differentiation of sympy.Function variables?

问题

When the following code is run Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uix)) and Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uiy)) terms appear:

In [4]: dgN
Out[4]:
Matrix([
[-(x1x - x2x)*(-x1y + x2y)*((x1x - x2x)**2 + (-x1y + x2y)**2)**(-0.5)*Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uix) + (-x1y + x2y)*(-(-x1x + x2x)*Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uix) + 1)*((x1x - x2x)**2 + (-x1y + x2y)**2)**(-0.5)],
[-(-x1x + x2x)*(-x1y + x2y)*((x1x - x2x)**2 + (-x1y + x2y)**2)**(-0.5)*Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uiy) + (x1x - x2x)*(-(-x1y + x2y)*Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uiy) + 1)*((x1x - x2x)**2 + (-x1y + x2y)**2)**(-0.5)]])

I would like to replace this Derivative terms by, let's say, the symbolic expression of the derivative of a function that I know for example, I would like to set Derivative(Ksi(uix,uiy), uix) = 2 * uix. Is there a neat way to do this substitution and to get a symbolic expression for dgN with Derivative(Ksi(uix,uiy), uix) set to 2 * uix? Here is my code:

import sympy as sp 

sp.var("kPenN, Xix, Xiy, uix, uiy, Alpha, x1x, x1y, x2x, x2y, x3x, x3y ", real = True) 
Ksi = sp.Function('Ksi')(uix,uiy)
Xi          = sp.Matrix([Xix, Xiy])
ui          = sp.Matrix([uix, uiy])
xix         = Xix + uix
xiy         = Xiy + uiy   
xi          = sp.Matrix([xix, xiy])
x1 = sp.Matrix([x1x, x1y])
x2 = sp.Matrix([x2x, x2y])

N           = sp.Matrix([x2 - x1, sp.zeros(1)]).cross(sp.Matrix([sp.zeros(2,1) , sp.ones(1)]))
N = sp.Matrix(2,1, sp.flatten(N[0:2]))
N = N / (N.dot(N))**(0.5)

xp = x1 + (x2 - x1)*Ksi
# make it scalar (in agreement with 9.231)
gN = (xi - xp).dot(N)
dgN = sp.Matrix([gN.diff(uix), gN.diff(uiy)])

回答1:

The substitution you want can be achieved with

dgN_subbed = dgN.subs(sp.Derivative(Ksi, uix), 2*uix)

Here Ksi is without arguments (uix,uiy) since those were already declared when Ksi was created.

The syntax would be a little more intuitive if you defined Ksi as Ksi = sp.Function('Ksi'), leaving the arguments -- whatever they may be -- to be supplied later. Then sp.Derivative(Ksi(uix, uiy), uix) would be the way to reference the derivative.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41813269/can-we-replace-the-derivative-terms-in-sympy-coming-from-the-differentiation-o