问题
I have a variable which may or may not be a sympy class. I want to convert it to a float but I’m having trouble doing this in a general manner:
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Dec 18 2014, 19:10:20)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>>> import sympy
>>> x = sympy.sqrt(2)
>>> type(x)
<class 'sympy.core.power.Pow'>
>>> y = 1 + x
>>> type(y)
<class 'sympy.core.add.Add'>
>>> z = 3 * x
>>> type(z)
<class 'sympy.core.mul.Mul'>
>>> if isinstance(z, sympy.core):
... z = z.evalf(50) # 50 dp
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: isinstance() arg 2 must be a class, type, or tuple of classes and types
I will be testing x
, y
, z
to convert into a float. note that I can't just run evalf()
on x
, y
and z
without checking because they might be integers or floats already and this would raise an exception.
sympy.sympify()
unfortunately does not convert to float. if it did then that would be the ideal solution to my problem:
>>> sympy.sympify(z)
3*sqrt(2)
>>> type(sympy.sympify(z))
<class 'sympy.core.mul.Mul'>
回答1:
All sympy objects inherit from sympy.Basic
. To evaluate an sympy expression numerically, just use .n()
In [1]: import sympy
In [2]: x = sympy.sqrt(2)
In [3]: x
Out[3]: sqrt(2)
In [4]: x.n()
Out[4]: 1.41421356237310
In [5]: if (isinstance(x, sympy.Basic)):
...: print(x.n())
...:
1.41421356237310
回答2:
heh, at the end of the day, it turns out you can just convert a sympy object to float using python's native float conversion function! don't know why i didn't try this straight away...
>>> import sympy
>>> x = sympy.sqrt(2)
>>> float(x)
1.4142135623730951
i will use this since it works even if x
is a python int or already a python float
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30023064/detect-if-variable-is-of-sympy-type