On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, mark florisson
<markflorisso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a side note, ipython is not something I usually trust to test
> things out, as it gets things wrong sometimes which can seriously make
> you question your own sanity.

I should note that we'd love to know specifics about problems that
severe.  Without a concrete report it's impossible for us to fix a
problem, unfortunately, and a vague statement like this only serves to
spread the notion "ipython is bad, for reasons unspecified".

Also, since I know some core Cython devs are also heavy sage users,
and the sage command-line is actually ipython, having an issue at the
intersection of cython/ipython is problematic for all sage users
working at the terminal.  So we'd really like to make the
cython/ipython combo as robust as possible.

I certainly don't expect everyone to use ipython, and obviously when I
see something that looks really bizarre, I double-check with plain
Python first, as ultimately that is our reference and regressions from
plain python are automatically bugs for us.

But I have to say that it's been a very long time since I have
encountered a situation where ipython produces something completely
absurd, and if it happens to you, by all means please let us know, so
we can try to fix it.

Best,

f
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