On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:35 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 7:12 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > In some code, I'd like to view or print an object depending on whether >> > in notebook mode with the "typeset" box checked or not. Is this a >> > good way to do it? >> >> > from sage.misc.misc import embedded >> > from sage.misc.latex import pretty_print, view >> > import sys >> > if embedded() and sys.displayhook == pretty_print: >> > view(x) >> > else: >> > print(x) >> >> I think that is the *only* way to do it. I don't think it is a "good way" >> though. It could be made much nicer by adding a single function somewhere, >> e.g., in misc/*/ that has the lines of code you wrote above in it, >> and has a meaningful name. Then other code that needs to do the >> same thing will be easier to write and read. What do you think? > > Well, I didn't know if 'sys.displayhook == pretty_print' was the right > way to check for the typeset box.
Well it works, and if we encapsulate it in a function (like you've done), then if we decide on a better way later it will be easy to change in only one place. > Anyway, here's a ticket (with a > patch): > > <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3396> Excellent. If you add a doctest I'll give it a positive review :-) William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
