Dear sage-devels,
The directory sage/databases has a dismal coverage score of 34.6%, and
a lot of the code is part of revision 0 in the hg repository (aka
sage-0.10.12 aka the Jurassic era). This makes it rather fun to
document, and I've run into a few things on which I'd like to get some
clarifications.
1. It seems to me that kohel.py is broken and has not been used in the
past 5 years or so.
2. The various database classes' __init__ method takes an optional
parameter read_only which is set to True by default. However, this gets
passed to the __init__ method of Database, which ignores it whenever the
database is given a name (so, in our case, always). For instance:
sage: c = ConwayPolynomials(read_only=True)
sage: c.read_only
False
3. The coverage script complains (as usual) about the lack of a
TestSuite test. The only test that is run for these classes inheriting
from Database is _test_pickling(), and this fails. Is this something
that we should look into fixing, or does is just not make sense to
pickle a Database?
4. Is tables.py now superseded by cremona.py and odlyzko.py?
Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/
Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia
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