On 2012-10-28, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In coding/code_bounds.py there is a comment:
>  (1) Indirectly, using minimum_distance_lower_bound(n,k,F) and
>  minimum_distance_upper_bound(n,k,F) (both of which which connect
>  to the internet using Steven Sivek's linear_code_bound(q,n,k))
>
> However, linear_code_bound (in databases/lincodes.py) is completely 
> commented out.  This happened more than 5 years ago:
> $ hg blame databases/lincodes.py | grep def\ linear_code_bound
>  4858: ## def linear_code_bound(q, n, k, verbose=False):
>
> $ hg log -g -r 4858 databases/lincodes.py 
> changeset:   4858:60ac2a91b36d
> parent:      4856:9c651ca8064d
> user:        William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>
> date:        Sat Jun 02 20:45:05 2007 -0700
> summary:     doctest fixes
>
> There are up-to-date (and much bigger) tables on http://www.codetables.de/
> but to hook them up might require some work.
> I've opened a ticket for this:
> http://trac.sagemath.org/13667

to my embarassment, Markus Grassl told me that Sage already 
has an interface to http://www.codetables.de/, in 
sage/coding/linear_code.py
It is called best_known_linear_code_www().
So it was put in, but the corresponding cleanup of
sage/coding/code_bounds.py has never happened.

Dima


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