[sage-support] Unfriendly sage

2013-06-03 Thread Jori Mantysalo
Is there any plans to make Sage more useful to beginners? To give two examples from different levels: 1*(2+ This gives "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" and explanation is "... exec compile(u'open("___code___.py","w").write("# -*- coding: utf-8 ..." --- what is beginner supposed to do with this?

Re: [sage-support] Text editor for sage on Mac

2013-06-03 Thread Ivan Andrus
Well those paths look suspicious (probably because you changed them). The paths should be `sage --root` + "/local/share/emacs" and `sage --root` + "/sage" respectively. Really, all I can say is copy what appears in the output of sage -f https://bitbucket.org/gvol/sage-mode/downloads/sage_mod

[sage-support] Re: how to keep up to a certain degree of a multivariate polynomial?

2013-06-03 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 2013-06-04, Sam math wrote: > How do I do this for a multivariate polynomial? It says O(.) is not defined... > > R. = PolynomialRing(QQ) > > f = x^3*y^3 + x^2 * y^4 + x*y + x + y + 1 > > How can I chop this polynomial up to a certain degree of x and y? I.e. I want > to keep up until the s

[sage-support] how to keep up to a certain degree of a multivariate polynomial?

2013-06-03 Thread Sam math
I have a multivariate polynomial and want to keep only up to a certain degree. I already know how to do this for the univariate case. For 1 variable, I'd do: R. = PolynomialRing(QQ) f = x^4 + x^2 + x^3 + x + 1 f = f + O(x^3) print f #output would be 1 + x + x^2... which is what I want. How

Re: [sage-support] Text editor for sage on Mac

2013-06-03 Thread janusyaner
-- (add-to-list 'load-path "/Applications/sage/to/sage/local/share/emacs") (require 'sage "sage") (setq sage-command "/Applications/sage/to/sage/sage") -- The above is my .emacs file. I changed the path several times but none of them works. On Sunday, June 2, 2013 9:54:27 PM UTC-7, Ivan

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread Volker Braun
sage.env will use gethostname() if there is no HOSTNAME set. Which is the case here. IMHO we should just print a warning that the hostname is illegal if its a rare problem on OSX, and hopefully fixed in newer versions. Its not only Sage that is broken by it, for example if you search the intern

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: I'm against dicking around with HOSTNAME just in case it might be invalid. This just leads to a maintenance nightmare where every script that uses HOSTNAME needs to perform the same sanitation. Well, depends on where it breaks (and why). We have Python scripts that (should)

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread Volker Braun
I'm against dicking around with HOSTNAME just in case it might be invalid. This just leads to a maintenance nightmare where every script that uses HOSTNAME needs to perform the same sanitation. For starters, you just broke the sage cleaner again. -- You received this message because you are

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: On Monday, June 3, 2013 8:47:17 AM UTC+1, leif wrote: Worth a ticket? Not sure; Apparently OSX does escape illegal characters usually, though clearly some people get bitten by this. Might be dependent on whether the name was entered during installation / upgraded from p

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, June 3, 2013 8:47:17 AM UTC+1, leif wrote: > Worth a ticket? > Not sure; Apparently OSX does escape illegal characters usually, though clearly some people get bitten by this. Might be dependent on whether the name was entered during installation / upgraded from previous versions.

[sage-support] Re: Unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''?

2013-06-03 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: socket.gethostname() returns illegal hostname, thats great. Apple, what the heck! ROFL. I first thought the apostrophe may come from the path of the Sage installation. Worth a ticket? -leif -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail -- You received th