Not surprised that f(3) is giving you an error. This form of substituting values in symbolic expressions has been deprecated for quite a while (well, over four years!). You must have got the warning at some point in your calculations. You should be using either f.subs(x=3) or f(x=3), i.e., specify the variable name explicitly.
Note that there are some idiosyncrasies while working with symbolic expressions. For instance the following will not complain even though f is not defined as a function of x:
sage: f = SR(1)
sage: f.subs(x=2)
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Inspired by your answer. I finally found that if no keywords was specified, f(3) will call variables() method to make a dict to pass to sage.symbolic.expression.Expression.subs method. It is the subs method do the actual work. So when varibles() return None, the dict cannot be made, an error was raised. The code is in Line 683 of /devel/sage/sage/symbolic/ring.pyx
Asked: 2013-03-14 11:06:52 +0100
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