Am Donnerstag, 30. April 2015 05:56:11 UTC+2 schrieb Volker Braun: > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 11:37:38 PM UTC-4, Martin R wrote: >> >> Oh, now that's an explanation! So the explanation in the third post on >> this thread, >> displayhook: calls __repr__ on the value of the last statement and >> sends to stdout >> > was a bit misleading. >> > > Well that was about plain Python... >
I'm only trying to understand. Yes, I assume it happens that someone is using sage as a python library and then possibly only wants repr. > Thanks for clarifying. (In turn, this begs the question, when is repr >> used for display instead of rich_repr?) >> > > _repr_ is used if an object does not implement _rich_repr_ or if > _rich_repr_ does not return anything. > OK, so if I'm not mistaken, _repr_ is for the use case just mentioned above, right? So the point really is that, at least for me personally, having rich_repr >> return graphics in the console (for any object, not only graphs) is very >> very undesirable. >> > > Presumably you find it desirable to display Graphics() objects (the return > value of plot()) as picture, so there is that. > Of course. Hence, _rich_repr_ (or _repr_) should not return a Graphics object, right?. Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
