Create an expression from a string. Raise SyntaxError if the string is
not properly formatted.
"""
- # add implicit multiplication operators, e.g. '5x' -> '5*x'
+ # Add implicit multiplication operators, e.g. '5x' -> '5*x'.
string = LinExpr._RE_NUM_VAR.sub(r'\1*\2', string)
tree = ast.parse(string, 'eval')
expr = cls._fromast(tree)
@classmethod
def fromsympy(cls, expr):
"""
- Create a linear expression from a sympy expression. Raise TypeError is
+ Create a linear expression from a SymPy expression. Raise TypeError is
the sympy expression is not linear.
"""
import sympy
if symbol == sympy.S.One:
constant = coefficient
elif isinstance(symbol, sympy.Dummy):
- # we cannot properly convert dummy symbols
+ # We cannot properly convert dummy symbols with respect to
+ # symbol equalities.
raise TypeError('cannot convert dummy symbols')
elif isinstance(symbol, sympy.Symbol):
symbol = Symbol(symbol.name)
def tosympy(self):
"""
- Convert the linear expression to a sympy expression.
+ Convert the linear expression to a SymPy expression.
"""
import sympy
expr = 0
@property
def _coefficients(self):
+ # This is not implemented as an attribute, because __hash__ is not
+ # callable in __new__ in class Dummy.
return {self: Fraction(1)}
@property