On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 15-Jun-08, at 6:45 AM, Mats wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've done Integer=int, but however it seems that after I do "from
>> __future__ import division", I still get 2/3=1.
>
> Can you give an example?

The original poster is claiming that the following doesn't work:

D-69-91-137-77:~ was$ sage
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| SAGE Version 3.0.2, Release Date: 2008-05-24                       |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
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sage: from __future__ import division
sage: 2/3
2/3
sage: Integer = int
sage: 2/3
0.66666666666666663

Actually it does, so .... ?

>
>> This does not occur in
>> the python interpreter; I get .666666... as I should.
>
> If you mean that you find
>
> sage: 2/3
> .66666
>
> then something is very strange.  By default, the sage interpreter
> preparses '2/3' to 'Integer(2)/Integer(3)' which evaluates to a
> Rational, namely 2/3.  So you should get
>
> sage: 2/3
> 2/3
>
> You can turn off the preparser -- preparse? might give you useful
> information and examples.
>
> Examples of what you want to do would be useful.
> Nick
>
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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