[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >>> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5081 . >>> >>> sage: numpy.array([1, 10, 100]).dtype >>> dtype('int64') >> >> Following up on this, I've als

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-10 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >>> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5081 . >>> >>> sage: numpy.array([1, 10, 100]).dtype >>> dtype('int64') >> >> Following up on this, I've also posted http://trac.sagemath.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-10 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5081 . >> >> sage: numpy.array([1, 10, 100]).dtype >> dtype('int64') > > Following up on this, I've also posted http://trac.sagemath.org/ > sage_trac/ticket/6506 . This br

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5081 . > > sage: numpy.array([1, 10, 100]).dtype > dtype('int64') Following up on this, I've also posted http://trac.sagemath.org/ sage_trac/ticket/6506 . This brings up an interface question, and

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn wrote: >> >> Jason Grout wrote: >>> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just too much hassle to turn it on and off,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just >>> too much hassle to turn it on and off, and it kind of defeats the >>> purpose.). That is, with the prepars

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-05 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Jason Grout wrote: > Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just >> too much hassle to turn it on and off, and it kind of defeats the >> purpose.). That is, with the preparser on, I should be able to run most >> NumPy-using code without c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-04 Thread rjf
It's possible to dismiss the result of the survey because of the low participation level, or to dismiss the results because of a hypothesis that the respondents already KNOW Sage and want to know something else. But I suspect that there is also an underlying current of simple lack of interest in

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-04 Thread Jason Grout
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > > 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just > too much hassle to turn it on and off, and it kind of defeats the > purpose.). That is, with the preparser on, I should be able to run most > NumPy-using code without changes. (I don't think

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-04 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> Currently the way to do numerics in Sage is to import scipy and numpy >> (because they really have created a good stack), and turn off >> preparsing (because those type issues get really annoying). At this >> point, it may become unclea