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+%% Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Colin B. Macdonald
+%%
+%% This file is part of OctSymPy.
+%%
+%% OctSymPy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+%% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+%% by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License,
+%% or (at your option) any later version.
+%%
+%% This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+%% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
+%% of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
+%% the GNU General Public License for more details.
+%%
+%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+%% License along with this software; see the file COPYING.
+%% If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+%% -*- texinfo -*-
+%% @documentencoding UTF-8
+%% @defmethod @@sym pyobject (@var{x})
+%% Convert/cast a sym object to a pyobject.
+%%
+%% Example:
+%% @example
+%% @group
+%% @c doctest: +SKIP_IF(~strcmp(sympref('ipc'), 'native'))
+%% syms x
+%% f = 2*sin(x/2);
+%% pyobject(f)
+%%   @result{} ans = [Python object of type sympy.core.mul.Mul]
+%%
+%%       2*sin(x/2)
+%%
+%% @end group
+%% @end example
+%% @seealso{@@sym/sympy, py, @@pyobject/pyobject}
+%% @end defmethod
+
+
+function y = pyobject (x)
+
+  y = py.sympy.S (sympy (x));
+
+  % Above is nice because it needs no imports.  But downside is some
+  % things like NonElementaryIntegral and MatrixElement will fail.  See
+  % e.g., commit 51a80384d5caea0db211e452d39f0b4f6b3778cc
+
+  % Alternatively, with many imports (see python_header.py), this works:
+  %y = pyeval (sympy (x));
+
+end
+
+
+%!test
+%! try
+%!   q = py.int(7);
+%!   have_py = true;
+%! catch
+%!   have_py = false;
+%! end
+%! if (have_py)
+%!   assert (isa (pyobject (sym ('x')), 'pyobject'))
+%!   assert (regexp (char (class (pyobject (sym ('x')))), 'py\..*\.Symbol'))
+%! end