That's fine - I understand the merits of pulling out the powers. I'm just 
looking to be able to rewrite things like 2 * log(2) as log(4) when I so 
desire. Thanks for your suggestions and I will play around with them!

On Friday, 3 May 2013 13:40:29 UTC+10, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, log automatically pulls out powers like this. If you 
> want, we could certainly discuss the merits of not having it do this. 
>
> As a workaround, you can use log(4, evaluate=False). I think you could 
> also subclass log and give it a custom eval that doesn't do that. 
>
> Something like this seems to work 
>
> class mylog(log): 
>     @classmethod 
>     def eval(self, *args): 
>         if args[0].is_Number: 
>             return None 
>         return super(mylog, self).eval(*args) 
>
> Aaron Meurer 
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Ben Lucato <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Not sure how to get this behavior in sympy - or even if it's possible. 
> It 
> > doesn't just go for this particular example, I want to be able to do it 
> for 
> > all such logs. 
> > 
> > 
> > Many thanks!!! Sympy rocks 
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