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patsy equivalent of R's all.vars

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Hey patsy developers, I wonder how can we retrieve the variable names from the model formula string (in R, this can be done via the all.vars function). For example,

if I have ("y ~ x1:x2 + np.log(x3) + I(x4^2)"), I want to return a list of ['x1', 'x2', 'x3', 'x4'].
Similarly, if I have ("~cr(time, df = 3)"), I want to return a list of ['time'].

Your help is highly appreciated!

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Start by tracing how patsy parses the formula strings shown in the issue. The change is done when an interface returns ['x1', 'x2', 'x3', 'x4'] for the first example and ['time'] for the cr(time, df = 3) example, including variables nested in interactions and function calls.

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python
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data
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