On Jun 10, 9:56 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:35 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> >> > 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?
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> >> > 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)
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> >> 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?
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> > Well, I didn't know if 'sys.displayhook == pretty_print' was the right
> > way to check for the typeset box.
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> 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.
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> > Anyway, here's a ticket (with a
> > patch):
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> > <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3396>
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> Excellent. If you add a doctest I'll give it a positive review :-)
I'm not sure how to add a doctest for this, since its behavior depends
on the situation, and since I don't know how to provide a doctest for
'view'. Any suggestions? (Besides, none of the other functions in
latex.py have doctests. Well, maybe some of them do, but lots of them
don't.)
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> William
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