Re: [sage-support] import .sage file [was : Evaluating Symbolic Expressions]

2011-11-02 Thread Laurent
.sage files are not meant to be used like normal Python modules. You can only load or attach them. I implemented this in 2005, when I was basically "implementing something like Magma" on top of Python. I'm not sure this is good or bad, but I definitely find sage: attach file.sage to be

Re: [sage-support] import .sage file [was : Evaluating Symbolic Expressions]

2011-11-02 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Laurent wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think its a issue of parsing. If your file is called hello.py it >> gives the errors you mentioned. However if you call your file >> hello.sage it works. If you call your file hello.sage and run >> >> sage hello.sage >> >> it generates

Re: [sage-support] import .sage file [was : Evaluating Symbolic Expressions]

2011-11-02 Thread Laurent
Hi, I think its a issue of parsing. If your file is called hello.py it gives the errors you mentioned. However if you call your file hello.sage it works. If you call your file hello.sage and run sage hello.sage it generates a hello.py which I append below - I know that, but I never understood