[Numpy-discussion] cos -- NameError: global name 'cos' is not defined
Mon Dec 21 13:44:44 CST 2009
Yes, one can get both sin and cos via the interactive shell, if math is
imported as you have done.
However, I thought math itself always present to a program module? In
my program, sin exists but not cos, so one is forced to use math.cos().
Why one but not the other?
Keith Goodman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Wayne Watson
> <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote:
>> In this code,
>> import math
>> import numpy as np
>> from numpy import matrix
>> def sinD(D): # given in degrees, convert to radians
>> return sin(radians(D))
>> def cosD(D):
>> return cos(radians(D)) <<--------------
>> def acosD(D):
>> the << line produces, "NameError: global name 'cos' is not defined", but
>> the sin() above it does not? They are both built-in functions.
> NameError: name 'sin' is not defined
> Oh, right, there is no built-in sin function. I need to import it:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import math
>>> from numpy import sin
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