Since abs is declared in functions/other.py as an explicit alias of abs_symbolic, I figured it wouldn't hurt to import if from that file but on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21657 it leads to a variety of failed doctests. Some of these are coercion errors and others are more severe. I'd like to understand why this happens.
Doesn't the explicit alias to abs_symbolic put abs into the global name space as a symbolic function? Why does an import of abs create more problems than the alias? Is this a general Python problem or something specific to SageMath? -- 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.
