As the discussion of this thread seems to converge to the conclusion that we need to transfer the function of X.list() to X.elements() or like to avoid confusion, I still like to add to the following separate issue
>> (For matrix X), X.list() returns a list of all the > >> entries of the matrix, whereas list(X) returned the rows. This is > >> totally my fault, definitely wrong, and its' in Sage right now. > > > > The list of the rows of X is the closest thing to X. So we can > understand the current behavior as the "conversion" of a matrix. > Huh? Isn't the list of columns isn't just as close? What about the > list of all elements? What metric for closeness are you using? > I think that list(X) is in general a way to get a "list" representation of object X. Then for matrix X, the list of rows of X is the closest representation since it keeps a bit of the structure of the matrix. So we can sage: m=matrix(2,[1,2,3,4]) sage: m [1 2] [3 4] sage: list(m) [(1, 2), (3, 4)] sage: matrix(list(m)) [1 2] [3 4] So I don't think the current behavior is so wrong. It is just unfortunate that X.list() and list(X) behave differently. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
