On 26 January 2012 19:10, Fernando Perez <fperez....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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".
Apologies, it was indeed a rather vague comment. I had some issues with pasting unicode characters a few years back that would get incorrect codepoints in ipython but not regular python, but I'm afraid I don't have any concrete report. As such I withdraw my comment, I just wanted to mention that if something smells iffy it might be a good idea to resort to regular python. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > cython-devel mailing list > cython-devel@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
