Hi Jason: Thanks for the help. I teach a MATLAB for engineers online course at the local univ so I tend to use MATLAB syntax by habit. However, I'm interested in swapping out and going to Sage/Python for the same type of early programming class for engineers. Thanks for the input, that helps alot.
Regards, Steve On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>wrote: > > Steve Yarbro wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, mabshoff <> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Michael: > > > > > > Thanks for the help. The error is very likely my lack of skill with > > sage (an excellent piece of work BTW). I have put together an example > > as you suggested. The support for sage is very good. Thank you. The > > example URL is http://sagenb.org:8000/home/pub/148/. When I use the > > zip(), the list_plot works. > > > > > Yes, you need to use zip in your case. list_plot takes a list of > points, like this: > > list_plot([ (x1,y1), (x2,y2), (x3,y3)]) > > You were trying to pass it two lists, one of x coordinates and one of y > coordinates. This is how you would do things in matlab, but not Sage: > > list_plot([x1, x2, x3], [y1, y2, y3]) > > The zip command just converts between these: > > zip([x1,x2,x3], [y1,y2,y3]) is [(x1,y1), (x2,y2), (x3,y3)] > > > You can see the documentation for list_plot and zip by typing the > command name followed by a question mark: > > list_plot? > > zip? > > > Having said that, this confusion points to a bug in the list_plot > documentation. It should probably mention this and show how to use the > zip command. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
