I don't think the Indexed objects are real tensors. They were designed
for use with the code generation module. It would be better to get
this functionality with the new tensor module, I think (assuming my
understanding of it is correct).

Aaron Meurer

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering if its possible to take derivatives with respect to
> indexed symbols. For example,
>
>>>> from sympy.tensor import IndexedBase, Idx
>>>> x = IndexBase('x')
>>>> i, j = map(Idx, ['i', 'j'])
>>>> x[i].diff(x[j])
> ValueError: Can't differentiate wrt the variable: x[j], 1
>
> I'd like Sympy to return KroneckerDelta(i,j).
>
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