Fix ParameterExpression.is_real if symengine is installed#8456
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LGTM, this seems reasonable to fix the bug while we wait for symengine. Hopefully they fix it soon and we can remove the extra eval call.
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) * Fix is_real on ParameterExpression * typo in reno Co-authored-by: mergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 2bab09c)
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Fixes #8417.
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This PR works around a case in symengine where an expression is not identified as real or imaginary if it is multiplied by a constant. This led to the unexpected behavior in Qiskit that e.g.
2 * Iwas not being identified as imaginary: