I've learned that I can easily build and use a cython file by just typing
"load filename.pyx" at the Sage command prompt (and this is wonderful). I'm
guessing that when I do this, Sage automatically adds some include files or
compilation flags or something, because it works and I don't have to defi
On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Irucka Embry wrote:
> Hi William Stein, how are you?
>
> Why doesn't Sage use GNU Octave as one of its packages anymore? I
remember working with Sage years ago when Octave was included as a package.
I checked online today and Octave is no longer listed as a package.
>
Oc
On Mar 4, 1:14 am, Robert Bradshaw
wrote:
> I think it's fair to test for strings first, trying to parse, before
> testing if it's an iterator. This is consistant with many other
> objects that try to "parse" their string representations.
>
> sage: ZZ['x']([1,2,3])
> 3*x^2 + 2*x + 1
> sage: ZZ['x'
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
> On Mar 2, 12:28 am, Robert Bradshaw
> wrote:
>> The difficulty with accepting an iterator (of strings) is that it is
>> unclear if each item corresponds to a row or an element. But I would
>> be in favor of rather liberal string parsing, so one
