Python Mathematical Expression Evaluator
Based on js-expression-eval, by Matthew Crumley (email@matthewcrumley.com, http://silentmatt.com/)
https://github.com/silentmatt/js-expression-eval
Ported to Python and modified by @cansadadeserfeliz.
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Installation
pip install py_expression_eval
Tests
python setup.py test
Documentation
All the classes and methods of py-expression-eval
were written as similar as possible to their analogues from js-expression-eval to make it easier to use for validation on back-end side.
Parser
Parser
is the main class of the library that contains the methods to parse, evaluate and simplify mathematical expressions. In order to use the library you need to create an instance of this class:
> from py_expression_eval import Parser
> parser = Parser()
Once you instantiated Parser
class, you can create Expression
object using parse
method:
> parser.parse('2 * 3')
Out: <py_expression_eval.Expression instance at 0x7f40cc4e5ef0>
Parser.Expression
evaluate()
takes a dictionary with variables as a parameter and returns the value of the expression:
> parser.parse('2 * 3').evaluate({})
Out: 6
> parser.parse('2 * 3.0').evaluate({})
Out: 6.0
> parser.parse('2 * x').evaluate({'x': 7})
Out: 14
> parser.parse('2 * x').evaluate({'x': 7.0})
Out: 14.0
substitute()
creates a new expression where specified variables are replaces with a new expression. For example, to replace x
with 3 + x
in 2 * x
expression we use the following code:
> parser.parse('2 * x').substitute('x', '3 + x').toString()
Out: '(2*(3+x))'
variables()
returns a list of the variables for the expression:
> parser.parse('2 * x + y').variables()
Out: ['x', 'y']
simplify()
simplifies the expression. For example,
> parser.parse('2 * 3 * x + y').simplify({}).toString()
Out: '((6*x)+y)'
> parser.parse('2 * 3 * x + y').simplify({'x': -1}).toString()
Out: '(-6+y)'
> parser.parse('cos(PI) + x').simplify({}).toString()
Out: '(-1.0+x)'
toString()
converts the expression to a string.
Available operators, constants and functions
Expression | Example | Output |
---|
+ | parser.parse('2 + 2').evaluate({}) | 4 |
- | parser.parse('3 - 1').evaluate({}) | 2 |
* | parser.parse('2 * 3').evaluate({}) | 6 |
/ | parser.parse('5 / 2').evaluate({}) | 2.5 |
% | parser.parse('5 % 2').evaluate({}) | 1 |
^ | parser.parse('5 ^ 2').evaluate({}) | 25.0 |
PI | parser.parse('PI').evaluate({}) | 3.141592653589793 |
E | parser.parse('E').evaluate({}) | 2.718281828459045 |
sin(x) | parser.parse('sin(0)').evaluate({}) | 0.0 |
cos(x) | parser.parse('cos(PI)').evaluate({}) | - 1.0 |
tan(x) | parser.parse('tan(0)').evaluate({}) | 0.0 |
asin(x) | parser.parse('asin(0)').evaluate({}) | 0.0 |
acos(x) | parser.parse('acos(-1)').evaluate({}) | 3.141592653589793 |
atan(x) | parser.parse('atan(PI)').evaluate({}) | 1.2626272556789118 |
log(x) | parser.parse('log(1)').evaluate({}) | 0.0 |
log(x, base) | parser.parse('log(16, 2)').evaluate({}) | 4.0 |
abs(x) | parser.parse('abs(-1)').evaluate({}) | 1 |
ceil(x) | parser.parse('ceil(2.7)').evaluate({}) | 3.0 |
floor(x) | parser.parse('floor(2.7)').evaluate({}) | 2.0 |
round(x) | parser.parse('round(2.7)').evaluate({}) | 3.0 |
exp(x) | parser.parse('exp(2)').evaluate({}) | 7.38905609893065 |
and | parser.parse('a and b').evaluate({'a':True, 'b':True}) | True |
or | parser.parse('a or b').evaluate({'a':True, 'b':True}) | True |
xor | parser.parse('a xor b').evaluate({'a':True, 'b':True}) | False |
not | parser.parse('a and not b').evaluate({'a':True, 'b':True}) | False |
in | parser.parse('1 in (1,2,3)').evaluate({}) | True |
Examples
from py_expression_eval import Parser
parser = Parser()
parser.parse('2 * 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2 ^ x').evaluate({'x': 3})
parser.parse('2 * x + 1').evaluate({'x': 3})
parser.parse('2 + 3 * x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('(2 + 3) * x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('2-3^x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('-2-3^x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('-3^x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('(-3)^x').evaluate({'x': 4})
parser.parse('2*x + y').evaluate({'x': 4, 'y': 1})
parser.parse('round(log(2.7))').evaluate({})
expr = parser.parse('2 * x + 1')
expr2 = expr.substitute('x', '4 * x')
expr2.evaluate({'x': 3})
expr = parser.parse('x * (y * atan(1))').simplify({'y': 4})
expr.toString()
expr.evaluate({'x': 2})
expr = parser.parse('x * (y * atan(1))')
expr.variables()
expr.simplify({'y': 4}).variables()
Available operations
from py_expression_eval import Parser
parser = Parser()
parser.parse('2 + 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2 - 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2 * 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2 / 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2 % 3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('-2').evaluate({})
parser.parse('abs(-2)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('ceil(1.4)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('floor(1.4)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('round(1.4)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('2^3').evaluate({})
parser.parse('sqrt(16)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('sin(3.14)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('cos(3.14)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('tan(3.14)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('asin(1)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('acos(1)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('atan(1)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('log(2.7)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('exp(1)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('log(E)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('cos(PI)').evaluate({})
parser.parse('x||y').evaluate({'x': 2, 'y': 3})
parser.parse('num in (1,2,3)').evaluate({'num': 1})
parser.parse('"word" in "word in sentence"').evaluate({})
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