On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt
Roune<bjarke.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at sage/rings/ideal.py, and it has error messages like
>
>  "need at least one argument"
>  "unable to find common ring into which all ideal generators map"
>  "R must be a commutative ring"
>
> The first isn't a complete sentence, and the other two aren't
> capitalized and don't end with a period. Is this just fine or is it an
> issue to report to trac?

This is the standard convention in Python, e.g., note below that this
very standard Python error isn't a complete sentence, isn't
capitalized, and doesn't end with a period:

resid-tg105:~ wstein$ sage -python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jun 18 2009, 13:32:33)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1/0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero

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