[sage-devel] Re: apropos command for SAGE

2007-06-27 Thread William Stein
On 6/27/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, there's an eval. In the context of SAGE, the eval is more useful > >> than the (defensible, correct) IPython behaviour. > > > > FYI, I'm definitely *not* opposed to having an eval like Fernando is. > > Thanks for your patch!! > > Hi W

[sage-devel] Re: apropos command for SAGE

2007-06-27 Thread Nick Alexander
> I'm going to guess you have an eval() somewhere in there for this to > work. If not, just ignore the rest of this message and send me the > patch for ipython itself :) No, there's an eval. In the context of SAGE, the eval is more useful than the (defensible, correct) IPython behaviour. > It'

[sage-devel] Re: apropos command for SAGE

2007-06-26 Thread Fernando Perez
On 6/26/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interrogating literals works, more or less. > > sage: ?factor(6) > Type: Factorization > Base Class: > String Form:2 * 3 > Length: 2 > Docstring: > I'm going to guess you have an eval() somewhere in there for