UCALC equivalent

[Max Erickson]

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote in
news:42fcea4a$1 at nntp0.pdx.net: 

> max wrote:
>> Larry Bates <lbates at syscononline.com> wrote in
>> news:42FCDCA7.7030107 at syscononline.com: 
>>>Python has built in eval function and doesn't require a library.
>> 
>> Are you kidding? Read the original post a little more closely.
>> The o.p. is looking for a library that evaluates mathematical
>> expressions and is callable from python code.
> 
> He is absolutely correct.
>  From the web page referenced:
> 
>      ucDefineFunction("area(length,width) = length*width");
>      ucDefineFunction("frac(x)=abs(abs(x)-int(abs(x)))");
>      ucDefineFunction("test() = 5");
>      ucDefineFunction("abc(x, y=10) = x + y");
>      ucDefineFunction("shl[x, y] = x * 2^y");
> 
>      cout.precision(16);
>      cout << ucEval("frac(150/17) * area(20,30)") << endl;
>      cout << ucEval("abc(5)-abc(3,4)*(#b01101 shl 1)")
>           << endl;
> 
> 
> The python equivalent:
> 
>      exec "def area(length,width): return length*width"
>      exec "def frac(x): return abs(abs(x) - int(abs(x)))"
>      exec "def test(): return 5"
>      exec "def abc(x, y=10): return x + y"
>      exec "def shl(x, y): return x * 2^y"
> 
>      print eval("frac(150/17) * area(20,30)")
>      print eval("abc(5) - abc(3,4) * shl(0x0E, 1)")
> 
> --Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
> 

Ouch, I sure was wrong. You did such a good job making me look 
foolish that it was mentioned in Python-URL!. At least Larry Bates 
had the grace not to call me an idiot.

max