On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:30 AM, mindcorrosive <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got a problem when evaluating exponents using sympy (class
> sympy.exp). Small code sample:
>
>   import sympy as sy
>   a=sy.exp(10)+sy.exp(20)
>   print a
>   >>> exp(10) + exp(20)
>
> All is well and good, but I'd like to evaluate the expression (which
> is obviously a constant). I try simply to convert it into a float:
>
>   b=float(a)
>
> and get an exception
>   (trace omitted)
>   TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for >>: 'long' and 'float'
>
> If "a" would have been
>
>   a=sy.exp(10)
>
> then the conversion works as expected.
>
> Perhaps I'm not doing it the right way? I couldn't find an obvious way
> to handle this.
>
> If that's relevant, I'm running Py2.4, sympy 0.6.6 on win32.

This works on linux (latest sympy, both python2.4 and 2.6):

In [2]: a = exp(10) + exp(20)

In [3]: a
Out[3]:
 10    20
ℯ   + ℯ

In [4]: float(a)
Out[4]: 485187221.876

so you found a bug. Could you please post the whole traceback? Let's fix it.

Ondrej
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