Try sage: sage_eval?
which preparses it's input while eval does not. On Thursday 19 Apr 2012, Graham Gerrard wrote: > z="1/2*x" > x=3 > eval(z) > 0 > z="x*1/2" > eval(z) > 3/2 > > ?? > > Graham Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org