sympy output in IPython

Question

I am very new to coding in Python and using the IPython notebook.

My question: is it possible to get the input-format of an output I get from previous calculations? For example, if I obtain an output in latex like $x^2$ how can I get x**2 automatically?

Answer 1

Call str on the expression. For example

>>> from sympy import symbols
>>> x = symbols('x')
>>> str(x**2)
'x**2'