Carlos Córdoba wrote: > Thanks for your quick answers. Coming from Mathematica, I was expecting to > add lists as vectors, multiply real numbers by lists, etc, without > sub-classing or using another types (such as vectors in sage) > > Do you advise me to add things to the preparser to have this behaviour or > not? If so, how can I do it? >
You might get some of the functionality you want by using numpy arrays. sage: import numpy sage: a0 = numpy.array([1,2,3,4]) sage: a0 array([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype=object) sage: a1 = numpy.array([5,6,7,8]) sage: a0+a1 array([6, 8, 10, 12], dtype=object) sage: a0*2.5 array([2.50000000000000, 5.00000000000000, 7.50000000000000, 10.0000000000000], dtype=object) sage: a0*a1 array([5, 12, 21, 32], dtype=object) numpy and sage don't cooperate perfectly at the moment, as numpy does not accept sage's native types. But, there are workarounds: http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#Typeissuesusingscipy.2CcvxoptornumpyfromSage This situation may be resolved in sage-4.1.1, assuming a recently developed patch survives the referee process. -- Kevin Horton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---