Simon King wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Sep 8, 10:58 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> This seems really odd to me. I expected to get back n() applied to each >> element of the list. >> >> sage: n([1,2]) >> 1.00000000000000 + 2.00000000000000*I >> >> Does anyone else find this behavior uncomfortable? > > Not I, at least. > AFAIK, there are only very few (no?) functions that, when applied to a > list, are in fact applied to the individual members of the list. > > Generally > >>> L= some list definition > >>> [f(x) for x in L] > is the way to go in Python, IMO.
Okay, that does seem pythonic. However, getting a complex number back is still very surprising to me. Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
