Hi Kwankyu,

On 2018-10-18, Kwankyu Lee <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am teaching sage to a class of first year math students. Today I was 
> embarrassed when I tried 
>
> [i.is_prime() for i in range(1,10)]
>
> because this raises an error. Until this point, I deliberately did not 
> mention that there are in fact two kinds of "integers" in sage and avoided 
> to explain about differences of "int" and "Integer".  
>
> I think that it should be possible for math students to use sage without 
> ever knowing "int". Then there should be an alternative to "range" that 
> produces "Integer"s rather than "int"s.

Such as srange(i,j)?

Best regards,
Simon

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