Oh, so that's where the broken Mul comes from...  =)  Makes sense, of 
course, but I was looking at my code saying "there's no multiplication!".

I've submitted the issue.

On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:02:11 PM UTC-7, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> Ah, that is a bug.  You should report that at 
> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/.  The reason it happens is that 
> it tries to do the expansion recursively, but sin(-x) becomes -sin(x). 
>  The fix is not too hard either, if you want to give it a shot. 
>
> The work around is to do the expansion with +y and then do 
> expr.subs(y, -y) at the end. 
>
> By the way, x - y and x + -y are exactly the same thing in SymPy. 
> Both are represented internally as Add(x, Mul(-1, y)). 
>
> Aaron Meurer 
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM, G B <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > I'm still new to sympy, so I might be doing something stupid, but I 
> think 
> > there's a problem here: 
> > 
> > In [1]: from sympy import * 
> > In [2]: x,y=symbols('x,y') 
> > In [3]: cos(x+y).expand(trig=True) 
> > Out[3]: -sin(x)*sin(y) + cos(x)*cos(y) 
> > 
> > So far so good.  but then: 
> > In [4]: cos(x-y).expand(trig=True) 
> > 
> > Leads to a long traceback that culminates with: AttributeError: 'Mul' 
> object 
> > has no attribute '_eval_expand_trig' 
> > 
> > For giggles, I also tried: 
> > In [5]: cos(x + (-y)).expand(trig=True) 
> > 
> > Which fails in the same way.  I can post the full traceback if it helps. 
> > 
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