Perfect.  The following solution seems to work for me.  Thanks!

class log(Function):

    def _eval_evalf(self,prec):
        pass

    def doit(self, **hints):
        from sympy import log as sympy_log
        return sympy_log(self.args[0]).doit(**hints)





On Saturday, September 6, 2014 2:20:12 PM UTC-5, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> SymPy automatically defines evaluation based on mpmath function names. 
> I think you can get around it by defining an empty _eval_evalf(self, 
> prec) function. 
>
> Aaron Meurer 
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Duane Nykamp <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > I really like the evaluate=False flag on parse_expr.  But, since 
> log(0.1) 
> > automatically evaluates to a float, I'm trying to create an unevaluated 
> > version of log.  However, I'm getting strange results where log is 
> > implicitly defined. 
> > 
> > As shown below, once I define a function log that does nothing, sympy 
> > somehow implicitly defines it to be the usual log function. 
> > 
> > Am I missing how this works or is this aberrant behavior? 
> > 
> > My eventual plan is to have log.doit() return the original sympy 
> function. 
> > 
> > If I call the function something else, like llog, then I don't run into 
> the 
> > behavior.  But, I'm not sure how to make printers display my llog 
> function 
> > as log. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Duane 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > In [1]: from sympy import Function 
> > 
> > In [2]: log 
> > 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call 
> last) 
> > <ipython-input-2-9a115ebc25a0> in <module>() 
> > ----> 1 log 
> > 
> > NameError: name 'log' is not defined 
> > 
> > In [3]: class log(Function): 
> >    ...:     pass 
> >    ...: 
> > 
> > In [4]: log 
> > Out[4]: __main__.log 
> > 
> > In [5]: log(0.1) 
> > Out[5]: -2.30258509299405 
> > 
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