Hi thanks for the reply. I wanted to do a simple division and print it out.
For example print("%d", 5/6). The problem is it doesn't return the
formatted result like it would in the shell. Do I have to use the S
function?
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 12:07:18 PM UTC-6, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> The SymPy Live shell does some preparsing of the input to prevent 1/3
> from being converted to 0.33333333333. In a normal Python shell, this
> does not happen. You should use Rational(1, 3) or S(1)/3. The link
> Jason gave explains why this is necessary.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Andre Yonadam <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Hi thanks for the reply. I wanted to do a simple division and print it
> out.
> > For example print("%d", 5/6). The problem is it doesn't return the
> formatted
> > result like it would in the shell. Do I have to use the S function?
> >
> > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 11:28:03 AM UTC-6, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Andre,
> >>
> >> Can you post your Python code? In Python 2.x, 1/3 returns 0, while in
> >> Python 3.x, 1/3 returns 0.3333. You can also turn on the Python 3.x
> >> behavior on 2.x with a future import.
> >>
> >> Ondrej
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Andre Yonadam <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > I was writing out a Python file by hand and wasn't getting the
> symbolic
> >> > results only when using default operators. For example, when dividing
> >> > 1/3 it
> >> > would return a decimal answer while if I used the Integral function
> it
> >> > would
> >> > give me the right result.
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