[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Thursday 18 October 2007 17:00, alex clemesha wrote: > > A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on > > plots > > -- I think they are too big.  Ironically, it seems that vanilla > > matplotlib is > > even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:21 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 10/18/07, David Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. > > There were far more complaints when it did show up, > since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, > couldn't paste it into session

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread cwitty
On Oct 18, 2:00 pm, "alex clemesha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering doing a semi-major clean up of the > plotting functionality so please jot down improvements > that you (or anyone) think could be made. See TRAC #924 for a bug-fix I would like. (I reported this in person at SD4, bu

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread alex clemesha
On 10/18/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on > plots > -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib > is > even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of funny >

[sage-devel] Fwd: cimport of extension classes?

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 18, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: Re: cimport of extension classes? To: sage-newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Sage team, sorry for asking my question: meanwhile i found the answer in another sage documentation. Rath

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
Oops, forget the patch! Now it is attached. On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:09:04PM -0400, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on > plots > -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is > even worse for thi

[sage-devel] plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on plots -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of funny things that I'd like a plotting guru to look at. It seems there is

[sage-devel] Re: Enhancing the SymbolicEquation class

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
On 10/18/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been experimenting with making a subclass of SymbolicEquation > called MutableSymbolicEquation but I like this approach better because > it is simpler. OK. By the way, subclassing SymbolicEquation by MutableSymbolicEquation would be bad b

[sage-devel] Fwd: cimport of extension classes?

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 18, 2007 11:49 AM Subject: cimport of extension classes? To: sage-newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Sage team, i address this question to "newbie" since it probably has a well known (but not to me...) answer.

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:21 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 10/18/07, David Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. > > There were far more complaints when it did show up, > since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, > couldn't paste it into sessions

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
On 10/18/07, David Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. There were far more complaints when it did show up, since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, couldn't paste it into sessions, etc. I think it should be replaced by sage: f.factor_padic

[sage-devel] Re: Enhancing the SymbolicEquation class

2007-10-18 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > On 10/17/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about replace_right instead of change_right. > > > > How about > > > > eqn.expand() # does it to both sides > > eqn.expand('right') # does it to the right > > eqn.expand('left') # does it to the right > > > > Basica

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. David On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period > apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. > david > On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Roe wrote: >

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. david On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Roe wrote: > The reason is that that doctest has sage.: > David > > On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
The reason is that that doctest has sage.: David On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umm.. > > sage: R. = QQ[] > sage: f = x^3 - 2 > sage: f.factor_padic(2) > > --- > Traceback (mos

[sage-devel] factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Umm.. sage: R. = QQ[] sage: f = x^3 - 2 sage: f.factor_padic(2) --- Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/ in () /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/ri