--- sympy-sympy-1.4/sympy/core/sympify.py.orig	2019-04-09 18:29:25.000000000 -0600
+++ sympy-sympy-1.4/sympy/core/sympify.py	2019-04-17 14:36:06.028059616 -0600
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def sympify(a, locals=None, convert_xor=
     try:
         a = a.replace('\n', '')
         expr = parse_expr(a, local_dict=locals, transformations=transformations, evaluate=evaluate)
-    except (TokenError, SyntaxError) as exc:
+    except (TokenError, SyntaxError, TypeError) as exc:
         raise SympifyError('could not parse %r' % a, exc)
 
     return expr