Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:47 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Robert Bradshaw >> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >>> +1 to (deprecating then removing) removing X.list(), and replacing it >>> with X.entries(). >> Very good point. We *must* remember to make X.list() use the >> deprecation warning system, and only remove it after 6 months. Could >> you make a trac ticket? > > Done. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4889
When I was finishing this, I realized that matrices have a dict() method which returns the entries in "sparse" format, as a dictionary. That naturally suggests that m.list() should return the entries as a list. Should we deprecate the dict() method too? Instead, we could have m.entries() take an optional "sparse" keyword argument, so that m.entries(sparse=True) returns a dictionary of the nonzero entries. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
