On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:18 PM, John Cremona wrote: > > Can someone point me to the documentation for the feature where, > for example, > > E.__order > > is translated to > > E._EllipticCurve_finite_field__order ? > > It appears that in several places where I thought I was caching data, > I am not successfully retrieving it, with some serious performance > consequences in the (accepted) patch for trac #1130 on elliptic curves > over finite fields. > > Basically I need to know when to use the short form and when the > long. I think.
This is a feature of python that I don't completely understand, but at least some documentation is here: http://docs.python.org/ref/atom-identifiers.html david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
