[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2015-09-16 Thread Nils Bruin
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 1:54:40 AM UTC-7, Mandeep Singh wrote: > > Can we declare lambda as a variable? I want to use it in eigenvalues > (linear algebra). > like: > l = var("lambda"); > It'll give error. So how can I declare it as a variable. > This works. I don't know if it will kee

[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2015-09-16 Thread Mandeep Singh
On Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 9:31:46 PM UTC+5:30, Jason Grout wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Paul Sargent > wrote: >> # Subs for lambda (have to use "lambda", but that's a keyword) lambda is a reserved keyword in Python, which means you can't use it

[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hansen
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Paul Sargent wrote: > Yes I'd found the dictionary form in the docstring, but didn't know > that it took the python variable rather than the symbol name (if you > see what I mean), and so was still having the same problem. > The docstring suffers from the fact tha

[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Sargent
On 28 May 2009, at 16:49, Mike Hansen wrote: > sage: sage: e1.subs({l:3}) > theta == 9 Yes I'd found the dictionary form in the docstring, but didn't know that it took the python variable rather than the symbol name (if you see what I mean), and so was still having the same problem. The doc

[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2009-05-28 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Paul Sargent wrote: >> # Subs for lambda (have to use "lambda", but that's a keyword) >> >> sage: e1.subs(lambda = 3) >> >> File "", line 1 >> e1.subs(lambda = Inte

[sage-support] Re: substitution of lambda variable

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Paul Sargent wrote: > # Subs for lambda (have to use "lambda", but that's a keyword) > > sage: e1.subs(lambda = 3) > >   File "", line 1 >     e1.subs(lambda = Integer(3)) >                    ^