In sage 7.2 the call lie(1+1) yields 2 as it should. In my sage 7.3 install however I get "TypeError: unable to start LiE" even though the optinal LiE package is installed. The same problem occurs in the SageMathCloud. Any ideas?
The full output in sage 7.3 is: sage: lie(1+1) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-1-a25266ea95a2> in <module>() ----> 1 lie(Integer(1)+Integer(1)) /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.pyc in __call__(self, x, name) 244 return cls(self, x, name=name) 245 try: --> 246 return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) 247 except TypeError: 248 raise /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.pyc in _coerce_from_special_method(self, x) 272 return (x.__getattribute__(s))(self) 273 except AttributeError: --> 274 return self(x._interface_init_()) 275 276 def _coerce_impl(self, x, use_special=True): /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.pyc in __call__(self, x, name) 242 243 if isinstance(x, six.string_types): --> 244 return cls(self, x, name=name) 245 try: 246 return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in __init__(self, parent, value, is_name, name) 1380 except (RuntimeError, ValueError) as x: 1381 self._session_number = -1 -> 1382 raise_(TypeError, x, sys.exc_info()[2]) 1383 except BaseException: 1384 self._session_number = -1 /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in __init__(self, parent, value, is_name, name) 1375 else: 1376 try: -> 1377 self._name = parent._create(value, name=name) 1378 # Convert ValueError and RuntimeError to TypeError for 1379 # coercion to work properly. /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.pyc in _create(self, value, name) 432 def _create(self, value, name=None): 433 name = self._next_var_name() if name is None else name --> 434 self.set(name, value) 435 return name 436 /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/lie.pyc in set(self, var, value) 689 """ 690 cmd = '%s=%s'%(var,value) --> 691 out = self.eval(cmd) 692 i = min( out.find('not defined'), out.find('\(in'), out.find('Argument types') ) 693 if i != -1: /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/lie.pyc in eval(self, code, strip, **kwds) 671 '4' 672 """ --> 673 s = Expect.eval(self,code, strip=True, **kwds) 674 #return s.strip() 675 if len(s) > 0 and s.find("\n") != -1: /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in eval(self, code, strip, synchronize, locals, allow_use_file, split_lines, **kwds) 1292 elif split_lines: 1293 return '\n'.join([self._eval_line(L, allow_use_file=allow_use_file, **kwds) -> 1294 for L in code.split('\n') if L != '']) 1295 else: 1296 return self._eval_line(code, allow_use_file=allow_use_file, **kwds) /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/lie.pyc in _eval_line(self, line, allow_use_file, wait_for_prompt, restart_if_needed) 656 657 """ --> 658 out = Expect._eval_line(self, line, allow_use_file=allow_use_file, wait_for_prompt=wait_for_prompt) 659 #Check to see if an error has occurred 660 err = max( out.find("\n(in"), out.find('not defined'), out.find('Argument types') ) /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in _eval_line(self, line, allow_use_file, wait_for_prompt, restart_if_needed) 903 try: 904 if self._expect is None: --> 905 self._start() 906 E = self._expect 907 try: /home/baer/bin/Sage/sage-7.3/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in _start(self, alt_message, block_during_init) 500 self._expect = None 501 self._session_number = BAD_SESSION --> 502 raise RuntimeError("unable to start %s" % self.name()) 503 self._expect.timeout = None 504 TypeError: unable to start LiE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.