From cfdd91ae7bb9376c2cfe6cf844ae497ce13296d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hensman <james.hensman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:21:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] improved detectino of sympy

---
 GPy/util/__init__.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/GPy/util/__init__.py b/GPy/util/__init__.py
index 629b3f48..2d2b6e17 100644
--- a/GPy/util/__init__.py
+++ b/GPy/util/__init__.py
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ import visualize
 import decorators
 import classification
 import latent_space_visualizations
-import symbolic
+
+try:
+    import sympy
+    _sympy_available = True
+    del sympy
+except ImportError as e:
+    _sympy_available = False
+
+if _sympy_available:
+    import symbolic
 
 import netpbmfile