[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-29 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:07 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 29, 5:57 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, mabshoff > > > > > > > b) The preparser, i.e. 3.0->RealNumber(3.0): This is a more general > > > issue, i.e. peop

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-29 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 29, 5:57 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, mabshoff > >  b) The preparser, i.e. 3.0->RealNumber(3.0): This is a more general > >  issue, i.e. people get bitten by it when using numpy/scipy regularly. > >  I am not sure what can be done he

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-29 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 29, 5:40 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:32 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > > > > The file system underneath Sage is for now a Unix file system which > > > uses "spac

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-29 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 29, 5:40 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:32 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > The file system underneath Sage is for now a Unix file system which > > uses "space" as a separator. It is generally a bad idea to use > > anything non [a-zA-Z0-9] in file names

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:32 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Apr 29, 6:24 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, schmmd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >>> Sage has poor support for filenames that contain a space. For >>> example, if you type `mkdir a\ e'

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-28 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 29, 6:24 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, schmmd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > >  Sage has poor support for filenames that contain a space.  For > >  example, if you type `mkdir a\ e', which will create a directory named > >  "a e" in

[sage-support] Re: bug: unix commands do not like backslashes and numbers

2008-04-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, schmmd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sage has poor support for filenames that contain a space. For > example, if you type `mkdir a\ e', which will create a directory named > "a e" in bash, SAGE provides the not-so-friendly error: As a workaround you might wan