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Michkov
Michkov

Reputation: 23

Replacing Sympy indexed symbols with numeric values

I have a sympy expression I want to put numerical values in after differentiating it. The variables I want to replace are all the x[i], y[i] and R_abs[i] in the last expression and are numpy arrays a la

rx=np.array([-0.357, -0.742, -1.078,  0.206])

But trying subs or replace either doesn't do anything or raises the error that Symbols dont allow indexation for for example e1.subs(x[1],rx[0]). I pretty much went through every iteration I could think of to no avail.

import sympy as sp
    
r0,ge_x,ge_y,bx,by = sp.symbols('r0,ge_x,ge_y,bx,by', real=True) #Main symbols

i,x,y,R_abs = sp.symbols('i,x,y,R_abs', real=True) #Helper symbols
n=4

s2=sp.Sum((bx+r0*sp.Indexed('x',i)/sp.Indexed('R_abs',i)+ge_x*sp.Indexed('x',i)+ge_y*sp.Indexed('y',i)-sp.Indexed('x',i))**2+(by+r0*sp.Indexed('y',i)/sp.Indexed('R_abs',i)-ge_x*sp.Indexed('y',i)+ge_y*sp.Indexed('x',i)-sp.Indexed('y',i))**2,(i,1,n))

e1=sp.Eq(sp.diff(s2,bx).doit(),0)

With e1 then being

Eq(8*bx + 2*ge_x*x[1] + 2*ge_x*x[2] + 2*ge_x*x[3] + 2*ge_x*x[4] + 2*ge_y*y[1] + 2*ge_y*y[2] + 2*ge_y*y[3] + 2*ge_y*y[4] + 2*r0*x[4]/R_abs[4] + 2*r0*x[3]/R_abs[3] + 2*r0*x[2]/R_abs[2] + 2*r0*x[1]/R_abs[1] - 2*x[1] - 2*x[2] - 2*x[3] - 2*x[4], 0)

In here I would like to replace all the x, y, and R_abs with their numerical values.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1049

Answers (1)

Chris du Plessis
Chris du Plessis

Reputation: 1370

I've always struggled with indexing in SymPy. Turns out, making Function instances are way easier than indexing instances of Symbol. It also makes notation simpler.

Also note that by using strings in your expression, I think SymPy makes its own symbols with those same string names but they can't be accessed with yours since your symbols are different. At least that's what happens sometimes to me.

Here is a working sample:

import sympy as sp

r0, ge_x, ge_y, bx, by = sp.symbols("r0 ge_x ge_y bx by", real=True)  # main symbols

# define functions that will take the role of indexed symbols
x = sp.Function("x")
y = sp.Function("y")
R_abs = sp.Function("R_abs")
i = sp.Symbol("i", positive=True, integer=True)
n = 4

s2 = sp.Sum((bx + r0 * x(i) / R_abs(i) + ge_x * x(i) + ge_y * y(i) - x(i)) ** 2 +
            (by + r0 * y(i) / R_abs(i) - ge_x * y(i) + ge_y * x(i) - y(i)) ** 2, (i, 1, n))

s2_prime = sp.diff(s2, bx).doit().simplify()
print(s2_prime)

# whatever lists you want. Can even be an instance of `np.ndarray`
# note that you summed from 1 to n so the 0th element will not be used
x_array = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
y_array = [4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
R_abs_array = [-10, 10, 5, 4, 3]

# define a function to access these array elements
x_function = lambda index: x_array[index]
y_function = lambda index: y_array[index]
R_abs_function = lambda index: R_abs_array[index]

# no idea why subs does not work and you MUST keep the same name for the variable.
# you can't have for example `evaluated_s2_prime = ...`.
# Probably something to do with forcing sp to remove references to `x`?
s2_prime = s2_prime.replace(x, x_function).replace(y, y_function).replace(R_abs, R_abs_function)
print(s2_prime)

Producing:

8*bx + 2*ge_x*x(1) + 2*ge_x*x(2) + 2*ge_x*x(3) + 2*ge_x*x(4) + 2*ge_y*y(1) + 2*ge_y*y(2) + 2*ge_y*y(3) + 2*ge_y*y(4) + 2*r0*x(4)/R_abs(4) + 2*r0*x(3)/R_abs(3) + 2*r0*x(2)/R_abs(2) + 2*r0*x(1)/R_abs(1) - 2*x(1) - 2*x(2) - 2*x(3) - 2*x(4)
8*bx + 20*ge_x + 12*ge_y + 31*r0/6 - 20

Upvotes: 2

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