On 20-Jan-08, at 9:27 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 January 2008, didier deshommes wrote: >> On Jan 20, 2008 11:20 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> bremen.de> > wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I've submitted the patch >>> >>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1816 >>> >>> to trac and Nick refereed it. The patch implements that if a >>> multivariate >>> polynomial ring is 'print'ed the output is quite verbose and >>> structured. >>> This behavior was in repr_long() before. >>> >>> EXAMPLE: >>> >>> {{{ >>> sage: P.<x,y,z> = >>> PolynomialRing(QQ,order=TermOrder('degrevlex',1)+TermOrder('lex',2)) >>> sage: print P >>> Multivariate Polynomial Ring >>> Base Ring : Rational Field >>> Size : 3 Variables >>> Block 0 : Ordering : degrevlex >>> Names : x >>> Block 1 : Ordering : lex >>> Names : y, z >>> }}} >> >> Will >> sage: P >> >> give the same verbose output? If so, I would give this a -0: I don't >> like it but it won't bother me as much. >> >> didier > > No, it would not. You can play with the behavior by considering > symbolic > expressions: > > sage: x,y = var('x,y') > sage: x/y > sage: print x/y > sage: str(x/y) I've always hated that x/y and print x/y can do different things at the prompt, but it sounds like I'm fighting a losing battle. Can someone (malb?) briefly document what the Sage standard for str and repr should be, so we can start updating the code? Thanks! Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
