[sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:24:22 AM UTC-8, Laurent Claessens wrote: > > Hi all ! > > I want sage -t to test my docstrings. > [snip] Is it normal ? With older versions of sage the same docstring was working. > Are you sure it was working before? Is it possible that with earlier versions of

[sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/21/12 11:42 AM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Starx wrote: But what if I don't want to add "from ... import *" at the beginning of each docstring ? I had this issue recently. William informed me that the philosophy of doctests is that a user should be able to tak

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Starx wrote: >> But what if I don't want to add "from ... import *" at the beginning of each >> docstring ? > > I had this issue recently.  William informed me that the philosophy of > doctests is that a user should be able to take anything they see in a > doctest

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Starx
> But what if I don't want to add "from ... import *" at the beginning of each > docstring ? I had this issue recently. William informed me that the philosophy of doctests is that a user should be able to take anything they see in a doctest and type it directly into sage with no additional comman

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Laurent
On 21 Feb., 14:24, Laurent wrote: Is it normal ? With older versions of sage the same docstring was working. Really? I doubt it. Yes, really ;) Well, in fact I did not tested THAT example on Sage 4.7, but my usual programs had doctrings that were working on 4.7 and that are no more w

[sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Keshav Kini
Simon King writes: > Hi Laurent, > > On 21 Feb., 14:24, Laurent wrote: >> Is it normal ? With older versions of sage the same docstring was working. > > Really? I doubt it. Could be. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/KFSg46vgXuE/Krh9gzIz7EgJ But it must have been a very old version of

[sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Simon King
Hi Laurent, On 21 Feb., 14:24, Laurent wrote: > Is it normal ? With older versions of sage the same docstring was working. Really? I doubt it. Your doc test will work if and only if "my_function" is defined in sage.all if and only if "my_function" is available directly after starting an interac

[sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

2012-02-21 Thread Keshav Kini
I don't know about whether this behavior has changed recently, but as far as I know, `sage -t` doesn't currently work on files that are not in the Sage library directory. This is not ideal and people were talking about trying to fix it recently: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/KFSg46vgX

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-02 Thread Jason Grout
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > > >> Is there a ticket to fix this? .sage sounds good. > > This issue is now ticket #6861 > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6861 > I posted a one-line patch to http://trac.sagemath.org/

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jan, On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Is there a ticket to fix this? .sage sounds good. This issue is now ticket #6861 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6861 -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:33:59PM -0700, William A. Stein wrote: > Note that this should be considered a workaround. It should be > considered a bug that users without write permissions to the Sage > install directory can't test their scripts. > It would be much better for Sage to use te

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:24:25AM +1000, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Is there then any control on the space used? If they did have write (unadvisable) they could fill the disk space with logs. Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --~--~-~--~~

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread William A. Stein
On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > > >> Is "sage -t" used for testing one's own code? > > Yes. > > >> Should /usr/local/src/sage-4.1.1/tmp/tmp be world-writeable? > > No since from a security point of view yo

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jan, On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Is "sage -t" used for testing one's own code? Yes. > Should /usr/local/src/sage-4.1.1/tmp/tmp be world-writeable? No since from a security point of view you don't want regular users to write anything there. Think of that tmp

[sage-support] Re: sage -t

2009-09-01 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi All, I have a system-wide sage install for all users. The source lives in /usr/local/src and all of it is owned by root.root. I chown it after install so that it does not have another user's permissions. A user had this problem: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:41:54PM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote: >

[sage-support] Re: sage -t problems with semicolons and line breaks

2009-06-09 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:20 PM, davidp wrote: > > On the file test.py, consisting of > > """ >    EXAMPLES:: > >        sage: gcd(4,6); >        sage: a = {1:'a', >                   2:'b'} > """ > > running sage -t produces two error messages (see below).  Is it true > that sage -t does not recog