Unit.
is_rational_function
(*syms)¶Test whether function is a ratio of two polynomials in the given symbols, syms. When syms is not given, all free symbols will be used. The rational function does not have to be in expanded or in any kind of canonical form.
This function returns False for expressions that are “rational functions” with symbolic exponents. Thus, you should be able to call .as_numer_denom() and apply polynomial algorithms to the result for expressions for which this returns True.
This is not part of the assumptions system. You cannot do Symbol(‘z’, rational_function=True).
Examples
>>> from sympy import Symbol, sin
>>> from sympy.abc import x, y
>>> (x/y).is_rational_function()
True
>>> (x**2).is_rational_function()
True
>>> (x/sin(y)).is_rational_function(y)
False
>>> n = Symbol('n', integer=True)
>>> (x**n + 1).is_rational_function(x)
False
This function does not attempt any nontrivial simplifications that may result in an expression that does not appear to be a rational function to become one.
>>> from sympy import sqrt, factor
>>> y = Symbol('y', positive=True)
>>> a = sqrt(y**2 + 2*y + 1)/y
>>> a.is_rational_function(y)
False
>>> factor(a)
(y + 1)/y
>>> factor(a).is_rational_function(y)
True
See also is_algebraic_expr().