[Numpy-discussion] How to use user input as equation directly

[Ryan May]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:58 PM, djxvillain <djxvillain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am an electrical engineer and new to numpy.  I need the ability to take
> in
> user input, and use that input as a variable.  For example:
>
> t = input('enter t: ')
> x = input('enter x: ')
>
> I need the user to be able to enter something like x =
> 2*np.sin(2*np.pi*44100*t+np.pi/2) and it be the same as if they just typed
> it in the .py file.  There's no clean way to cast or evaluate it that I've
> found.
>

Are you aware of Python's eval function:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#eval

?

Ryan

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Ryan May
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