If it fixes the bug and let's the Python 3.5 compatibility move forward
that's fine, but in the long run it will be a nasty slowdown for complex
orientation matrices. Can you please add a TODO comment or open an issue
that a performance preferable fix is needed?


Jason
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is my proposed patch
>
> diff --git a/sympy/vector/coordsysrect.py b/sympy/vector/coordsysrect.py
> index e5125d7..bfb00f9 100644
> --- a/sympy/vector/coordsysrect.py
> +++ b/sympy/vector/coordsysrect.py
> @@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ def orient_new(self, name, orienters, location=None,
>                  final_matrix = orienters.rotation_matrix(self)
>              else:
>                  final_matrix = orienters.rotation_matrix()
> +            final_matrix = trigsimp(final_matrix)
>          else:
>              final_matrix = Matrix(eye(3))
>              for orienter in orienters:
>
> If there are no objections, I am going to apply this at
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/10084, because it fixes the bug in
> question.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the fix Sachin.
> >
> > Now I'm hitting a new error. scalar_map calls trigsimp
> > (
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/4bf728685a82c990d48624b482907d3cfa2d1fc2/sympy/vector/coordsysrect.py#L329
> ),
> > which causes some tests to fail because the matrix changes form (it
> > starts with sin(q)*sqrt(3) - cos(q) and ends up with -2*cos(q +
> > pi/3)). The problem is that the expressions otherwise look the same.
> > It's just the CoordinateSystems buried in the BaseScalar objects that
> > have different matrices.
> >
> > You can reproduce the issue by running
> >
> > ./bin/test sympy/vector/tests/test_coordsysrect.py
> >
> > in my python35 branch (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/10084).
> >
> > I don't know what the correct fix here. I'm guessing trigsimp should
> > have been called when the original C was created (in orient_new_axis),
> > but I'm unsure.
> >
> > Aaron Meurer
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Sachin Joglekar
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> An attempt to fix the issues here:
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/10130
> >> . Also added tests to ensure that we test this part of compatibility
> with
> >> the core, in any further work done to sympy.vector.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Francesco Bonazzi <
> [email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:04:39 UTC+1, Aaron Meurer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm trying to fix sympy.vector.Point so that it follows the args
> >>>> invariant. Right now, there is a check that the parent_point must be a
> >>>> Point instance, but it can also be None, in which case, it is set to a
> >>>> Symbol. This causes a Point constructed in such way to not follow
> >>>> expr.func(*expr.args) == expr.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> There are also some subclassing of Symbol and ignoring the parameter
> >>> extensions:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/01b4f8d97be55746ee2abe38163b533ca5318ba7/sympy/vector/scalar.py#L14
> >>>
> >>> index and system are defining parameters, they should be in the .args.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps one should follow the example in sympy.diffgeom,
> >>>
> >>>
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/f3de4f3698c28355d6397e917b3d9d5bbf9c84c0/sympy/diffgeom/diffgeom.py#L467
> >>>
> >>> BaseScalarField in diffgeom is the analogous of BaseField in vector.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Example:
> >>>>
> >>>> In [11]: from sympy.vector import *
> >>>>
> >>>> In [12]: C = CoordSysCartesian('C')
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> If I remember correctly, the letter 'C' (the name of the coordinate
> >>> system) doesn't get registered in the args, that's another issue.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> As a side note, the fact that this sort of thing exists in SymPy is
> >>>> embarrassingly bad. We should fix test_args to test that objects are
> >>>> recreatable from their arguments and put a moratorium on new objects
> >>>> that don't follow that rule.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> It's a bit complicated to explain to new users how to write class
> >>> constructors.
> >>>
> >>> Mathematica has a pattern matching syntax that forces you to keep its
> >>> equivalent of SymPy's args sorted in this particular way.
> >>
> >>
>

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