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It seems that the substitute(f,t) function in Z3Py performs simplification on f first before doing the substitution. Is there a way to disallow this?
I would like the following behavior to occur:
f = And(x,Not(x))
result = substitute(f,*[(Not(x),BoolVal(True))]) #sub Not(x) => True
#if we simplify f first then the result = False, but if we do the substitution first then result = x
Unfortunately, the
substituteprocedure is implemented using the simplifier which can apply substitutions during the simplification. ThesubstitutePython procedure invokes the Z3 C APIZ3_substitutein the file api_ast.cpp. Internally, the simplifier is calledth_rewriter(theory rewriter).That being said, I agree this is not nice and may be very inconvenient in some cases. I will change that for the next release.