[sage-devel] Trac #11401 (magma interface vs. newlines) has a fix

2011-08-31 Thread Nils Bruin
Just a ping that http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11401 now has a proper fix and explanation on it. It was already marked "needs review" with a poor, symptomatic fix. The new one solves the heart of the problem, I hope. So if someone feels up to reviewing it ... In principle it could affec

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2011-08-31 Thread leif
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Re: [sage-devel] status on lion and xcode 4

2011-08-31 Thread Maarten Derickx
Thanks for the quick response. That sounds exiting! So with a bit of luck the problems with building Maxima will be solved somewhere in the near future. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr..

[sage-devel] help needed with making FreeModule_generic_pid work with generic pid's

2011-08-31 Thread Maarten Derickx
Dear All, At http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11751 I try to fix some problems with FreeModule_generic. I've put a patch up there wich makes the code work wich I want to work (only very small changes where needed, since it is just fixing some bugs in the code wich is already there). Th

Re: [sage-devel] status on lion and xcode 4

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Hansen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Maarten Derickx wrote: > On sage support there was a question on building sage on lion and using > xcode 4. So I was wondering is there any news in this area? The main thing holding it back right now were problems building boehm_gc and ECL, but both have been fixe

[sage-devel] status on lion and xcode 4

2011-08-31 Thread Maarten Derickx
On sage support there was a question on building sage on lion and using xcode 4. So I was wondering is there any news in this area? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For

[sage-devel] Re: imposing limits on rank in matrix generators, e.g. in random_matrix

2011-08-31 Thread Rob Beezer
On Aug 31, 12:05 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On a second thought, I just fix the error message, make it less cryptic, by > throwing an exception explicitly. I don't see a ticket yet - please cc me when you make one. The "second thought" sounds like a good improvement. Rob -- To post to this g

[sage-devel] Re: global namespace

2011-08-31 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin, Paul and William, On 31 Aug., 19:46, William Stein wrote: > Random Thoughts:  Since we banned using "is_MPolynomial", and we do > have Polynomial in the global namespace, I can't see an alternative to > having MPolynomial.  That said, it's perhaps bad that we have > Polynomial in the g

[sage-devel] Purple

2011-08-31 Thread Eviatar
It seems the icons on the main page as well as the favicon were changed from blue to purple. Why is this? I think it looked better before; now it looks somewhat washed-out. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sag

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-31 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Maarten Derickx wrote: > Sorry, don't have acces to matlab, maybe I should have stayed out of this > discussion and forget my prejudice about matlab. No worries! I've been hanging out on sage-flame too much recently, so I'm sorry that my response was so inapprop

Re: [sage-devel] global namespace

2011-08-31 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > at > >    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11764 > > Paul Zimmermann writes: > > """ > for univariate polynomials we have the class Polynomial: > > sage: R. = QQ[] > sage: isinstance(x+1, Polynomial) > True > However for mu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-31 Thread Maarten Derickx
Sorry, don't have acces to matlab, maybe I should have stayed out of this discussion and forget my prejudice about matlab. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more opt

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-31 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Maarten Derickx wrote: > There was one very concrete thing that I found out recently that would > probably have set me off if I was a matlab user trying to switch to sage. > sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) > 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I (1) If I remember correctly,

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-31 Thread Maarten Derickx
There was one very concrete thing that I found out recently that would probably have set me off if I was a matlab user trying to switch to sage. sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from t

[sage-devel] global namespace

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi, at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11764 Paul Zimmermann writes: """ for univariate polynomials we have the class Polynomial: sage: R. = QQ[] sage: isinstance(x+1, Polynomial) True However for multivariate polynomials we have to write: sage: R. = QQ[] sage: isinstance(x+y, s

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-31 Thread David Ketcheson
Qualifications to answer this question: -I have used MATLAB for 10 years in my research -About 3 years ago, I mostly switched to Python+numpy/scipy/ matplotlib, and I lead a project that includes about a dozen people developing code in Python -I use SAGE (mainly the notebook) in my teaching. Fo

[sage-devel] Re: imposing limits on rank in matrix generators, e.g. in random_matrix

2011-08-31 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On a second thought, I just fix the error message, make it less cryptic, by throwing an exception explicitly. Sorry for noise. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more