On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Jason Grout wrote:

> I've posted a patch to http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4343
>
> Can you apply the patch and test it out?
>
>
> Here is the new behavior:
>
>              sage: f(x,y) = x^n+y^n
>              sage: f.gradient()
>              ((x, y) |--> n*x^(n - 1), (x, y) |--> n*y^(n - 1))
>              sage: f.gradient([y,x])
>              ((x, y) |--> n*y^(n - 1), (x, y) |--> n*x^(n - 1))
>
Thanks for the quick response, Jason. As for applying the patch...

I run sage from a binary distribution that I downloaded.
I know I can manually edit the calculus.py file in the executable  
path on my system.
Will a changed file be picked up automatically when I run sage?

Again, thanks.
Jim

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