On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Prasoon Shukla
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have ran into a caching problem while working on my project for the vector
> calcculus module. This occurred while I was debugging the express method on
> vector (this isn't really relevant though).
>
> So, I have a symbol theta and another symbol phi.
>
>>>> cs.theta
> cs.theta
>
>>>> cs.phi
> cs.phi
>
> cs is an instance of the CoordSysSph class (again, not really relevant to
> the problem at hand).
>
> The problem:
>>>> sin(cs.theta) * sin(cs.phi)
> sin(cs.theta) ** 2
>
> Well, in the definition for the cacheit decorator, the dicitionary
> func_cache_it_cache exists. Now, when sin(cs.theta) is called, a key, value
> pair gets added to the dictionary:
>
> ((sin, <class 'sympy.core.function.FunctionClass'>), (cs.theta, <class
> 'sympy.vector.vector.BaseScalar'>))  : sin(cs.theta)
>
> Now, when SymPy needs to calculate sin(cs.phi), the cacheit decorator is
> called again. The lookup key for sin(cs.phi) is generated as:
> ((sin, <class 'sympy.core.function.FunctionClass'>), (cs.phi, <class
> 'sympy.vector.vector.BaseScalar'>))

Oh, just noticed this. phi and theta are not Symbols, they are
BaseScalars. So you probably did something wrong implementing equality
comparison on BaseScalars. What does "cs.phi == cs.theta" give?

Can you give a complete code snipped to reproduce this in your branch?

Aaron Meurer

>
> At this point, the func_cache_it_cache does not have the key correspondind
> to sin(cs.phi), as it shouldn't. But, here's the catch: running the has_key
> method on func_cache_it_cache for this second key (for sin(cs.phi)) returns
> True. That means, the cache returns sin(cs.theta). And that is what is
> causing the problem.
>
> What can I possibly do here? For the time being, I am going to proceed with
> the debugging. When there is a solution for this problem, we can go ahead
> and fix this.
>
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