plusminus 0.3.0

+/- plusminus is a module that builds on the pyparsing infixNotation helper method to build easy-to-code and easy-to-use parsers for parsing and evaluating infix arithmetic expressions. plusminus's ArithmeticParser class includes separate parse and evaluate methods, handling operator precedence, override with parentheses, presence or absence of whitespace, built-in functions, and pre-defined and user-defined variables, functions, and operators.

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The plusminus package provides a ready-to-run arithmetic parser and evaluator, based on pyparsing's infixNotation helper method.

Strings containing 5-function arithmetic expressions can be parsed and evaluated using the BasicArithmeticParser:

from plusminus import BasicArithmeticParser

parser = BasicArithmeticParser()
print(parser.evaluate("2+3/10"))

The parser can also return an Abstract Syntax Tree of ArithNode objects:

parsed_elements = parser.parse("2+3/10")

Arithmetic expressions are evaluated following standard rules for operator precedence, allowing for use of parentheses ()'s to override:

()
∩ (set intersection)
∪ (set union)
-
**
* / × ÷ mod
+ -
< > <= >= == != ≠ ≤ ≥
in ∈ ∉
not
and ∧
or ∨
? : (ternary)

Functions can be called:

  sgn    min  asin  rad    lcm
  abs    max  acos  deg    gamma
  round  str  atan  ln     hypot
  trunc  sin  sinh  log2   nhypot
  ceil   cos  cosh  log10  rnd
  floor  tan  tanh  gcd    

The Basic ArithmeticParser also supports assignment of variables:

r = 5
area = π × r²

This last expression could be assigned using '@=' formula assignment:

area @= π × r²

As r is updated, evaluating area will be reevaluated using the new value.

Custom expressions can be defined using a simple API. Example parsers are included for dice rolling, combination/permutation expressions, and common business calculations. These parsers can be incorporated into other applications to support the safe evaluation of user-defined domain-specific expressions.