Hi Jason (Grout),
I found a very serious bug sort of similar to the one being discussed
in this thread. Namely, if you make an interact like this things go
horribly wrong:
@interact
def f(s=(0,pi,1)):
print s
I've posted a patch here
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5232
Please review it.
William
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The patch makes it so that u=x^2 works, where it didn't before (it gave
>> you that weird string). What changes is that typing u='x^2' now
>> literally puts 'x^2' (with the quote marks) in the input box, whereas
>> before the patch, only x^2 (without quote marks) would show up in the
>> input box.
>>
>> In short, the patch fixes your original complaint. However, it changes
>> how strings are handled when specified as default values.
>
> I see. I should point out again that u=x^2 worked fine in the very
> recent past. Is there no way to get that both 'x^2' (for presumably
> lots of code exists that used that; a cursory look at the Wiki reveals
> at last a few with "x^2" or 'x^2') and x^2 (the obvious thing, which
> most wiki examples use) *both* work as intended? I ask out of
> ignorance.
>
> - kcrisman
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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