[IPython-user] Parsing issue (maybe).

[Andrea Riciputi]

Hi all,
I've a problem here with ipython 0.6.15. I don't know if the new  
version (0.7.0) still exhibits the same problem though. Here it is  
the problem. I've defined a class to mimick mathematical functions  
and in that class I've defined the special method __and__ to check if  
2 functions have the same dimensionality. Here it is a meaningfull  
excerpt:

In [1]: import Functions

In [2]: x = Numeric.arange(10)

In [3]: y = Numeric.arange(5)

In [4]: z1 = x[:,Numeric.NewAxis] + y

In [5]: z2 = x[:,Numeric.NewAxis] - y

In [6]: foo = Functions.Function([x,y], z1)

In [7]: bar = Functions.Function([x,y], z2)

In [8]: foo & bar
------> foo(& bar)
------------------------------------------------------------
    File "<console>", line 1
      foo(& bar)
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

In [9]: (foo) & (bar)
Out[9]: True

otherwise if I try

In [1]: foo = 0

In [2]: bar = 1

In [3]: foo & bar
Out[3]: 1

The same piece of code using standard python works correctly:

 >>> import Numeric as nu
 >>> import Functions
 >>> x = nu.arange(10)
 >>> y = nu.arange(5)
 >>> z1 = x[:,nu.NewAxis] + y
 >>> z2 = x[:,nu.NewAxis] - y
 >>> foo = Functions.Function([x,y],z1)
 >>> bar = Functions.Function([x,y],z2)
 >>> foo & bar
True

It seems that there is a problem with the command line in ipython.  
Any comments?

Thanks,
  Andrea.