In the sage.libs.gap package, in the assigned_names.py module, there is a function called just list_functions() [1] which is documented to "Return the GAP documented global functions".
This is used in the all_documented_functions.py [2] module to create Python wrappers for "all documented GAP functions, they can be thought of as the official API of GAP". This turns out to create a bit of a problem: The GAP function IsDocumentedWord, which this code uses to determine if a function is "documented", works by searching for the function's name in all documentation known to GAP. By default this is just the standard GAP reference docs. However, if you have any GAP packages installed, it will *also* search the docs for those packages. If you have lots of packages installed that means this is *extremely* slow, even if we're just searching for terms that we only care about being in the main GAP docs. Though perhaps it is a faulty assumption that this is "the official API of GAP" in the first place. Or at the very least, perhaps we don't really need to care about whether or not the function is "documented", and that just returning all global functions is good enough for a first pass. But I'm not sure. Volker wrote this code originally so he would know best. But what do we want to present as the "API" provided by Sage's GAP interface? [1] https://gitlab.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/src/sage/libs/gap/assigned_names.py#L118 [2] https://gitlab.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/src/sage/libs/gap/all_documented_functions.py -- 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.
