How to substitute multiple symbols in an expression in sympy?
The command x = Symbol('x')
stores Sympy's Symbol('x')
into Python's variable x
. The Sympy expression f
that you create afterwards does contain Symbol('x')
, not the Python variable x
.
When you reassign x = 0
, the Python variable x
is set to zero, and is no longer related to Symbol('x')
. This has no effect on the Sympy expression, which still contains Symbol('x')
.
This is best explained in this page of the Sympy documentation:http://docs.sympy.org/latest/gotchas.html#variables
What you want to do is f.subs(x,0)
, as said in other answers.
Actually sympy is designed not to substitute values until you really want to substitute them with subs
(see http://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/basic_operations.html)
Try
f.subs({x:0})f.subs(x, 0) # as alternative
instead of
x = 0