latex parse "e"

[subharmony]

I am trying to use parse_latex to convert e^x into a sympy expression. However, 'e' is interpreted as a free symbol rather than a special character. Is there a way to indicate that 'e' should be interpreted as exp()?

thank you

[Aaron Meurer]

I would consider this to be a bug in the LaTeX parser. Can you open
an issue for it?

Currently, the latex parser doesn't have very many options. We are
hoping to improve it. For now, though, you can work around this by
manually doing result = result.subs(Symbol('e'), E).

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:06 PM subharmony <subha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to use parse_latex to convert e^x into a sympy expression. However, 'e' is interpreted as a free symbol rather than a special character. Is there a way to indicate that 'e' should be interpreted as exp()?
>
> thank you
>

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[subharmony]

Thank you for your reply and help with the work around. I have found a similar problem for interpreting 'pi' and have opened an issue that describes both cases.

cheers