Do you maybe have smart quotes around the m in the symbols arg?

/c

On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 4:14:31 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:

> I have a test program:
>
> from sympy import symbols, Rational
> m = symbols('m')
> temp = Rational(0)
> temp = temp.subs(m, m)
> temp = 0
> temp = temp.subs(m, m)
> #Result in test program:
> #'int' object has no attribute 'subs'
> #Result in my program:
> #UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa7 in position 416: 
> invalid start byte
>
> Of course, subs(m, m) doesn't make sense, but it is a special case that 
> can occur and it was easier to allow it than to construct code to avoid it.
>
> When temp is an integer 0, the error message in the test program is easy 
> for me to understand: 'int' object has no attribute 'subs'
> However, for some reason, when exactly the same code runs within my 
> program, the error message caused my real headaches, because it was hard to 
> find our exactly where it was happening: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec 
> can't decode byte 0xa7 in position 416: invalid start byte
>
> Now I can solve the problem easily by using Rational(0). Of course, I 
> could also avoid the subs when the variable is 0, but that would be my 
> second choice.
>
> By the way, I am using Python 3.9 and Sympy 1.9 in Visual Studio 2022 on 
> Windows 10, just in case anyone is interested in trying this out and making 
> a comparison.
>
>

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