I have written the following code that returns a solution. import sympy as sym import numpy as np z = sym.Symbol('z') e = sym.Symbol('e') f = sym.Function('f') edo = sym.diff(f(z), z , 2) + e * f(z) soln = sym.dsolve(edo, f(z)) print(soln.rhs) the above code returns: C1*exp(-z*sqrt(-e)) + C2*exp(z*sqrt(-e)) I want to be able to access the elements of this 'soln.rhs' directly and plot them. I could copy and paste the results, but I want to do something like: plot(x, soln.rhs[0]) which would plot exp(-z*sqrt(-e)) The reason for this is that I am analysing many different types of ODE, some of which return solutions which are combinations of Airy functions like C1*airyai(-e + z) + C2*airybi(-e + z) Does anyone know how to access the elements of the general solution? I have looked through the documentation and nothing really pops out. Continue reading...