On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Henryk Trappmann
<bo198...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I reached 90% coverage and have some more questions:
>
> 1. What is pickling?

http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html

> Currently I get the following message if I try
> dumps:
> PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '__main__.FormalPowerSeries'>:
> attribute lookup __main__.FormalPowerSeries failed

I don't know without looking further at your code.

> 2. I currently work in my own repository, when is it time to switch to
> the sage repository (and how is this be done). So that if people are
> interested in the current state they just need to take a look at the
> sage repository, and can give early feedback.

There is no "sage repository".  When you want to make your code
available, you post
an hg (mercurial) patch or bundle.

>
> Regards,
> Henryk
>
> On Mar 27, 4:25 am, "Nicolas M. Thiery" <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:58:17AM -0700, Henryk Trappmann wrote:
>>
>> > On Mar 26, 5:07 am, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > > Well, I will not merge a second implementation as long as there is no
>> > > clear roadmap for resolving the problem.
>>
>> > The basic functionality of Mike's powerseries class is also contained
>> > in my class.
>> > That is add, multiply, power, composition, shift, differentiate and
>> > integrate.
>> > I also changed my implementation that now a recursive define is
>> > possible according to Ralf Hemmecke's suggestion in this thread.
>>
>> Great! I guess that the species code should make for a good test suite
>> for this feature.
>>
>> > I can incorporate any additional functionality from Mike's
>> > implementation after consulting him, also about about sage style and
>> > conventions etc.
>>
>> > Is this a roadmap of resolving the problem? Or is there a special need
>> > to start with Mike's implementation as base?
>>
>> Following the same syntax is a definite plus unless there is a very
>> good reason for deviating. As for the implementation, just see this
>> with Mike (there might be tricks, typically around pickling) that you
>> might want to recycle.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>                                 Nicolas
>> --
>> Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
> >
>



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

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