Thanks - I've created an issue: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/1107
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Aaron Tresham <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last two weeks, many of my students have run into problems when > using the underscore in SMC. > > As I understand it, Python automatically writes the last output to _, so > we might compute a derivative and then do show(_) to make it look nicer. Or > perhaps we do a calculation and then do N(_) to convert to a decimal. > > Anyway, for about two weeks both of these have failed. show(_) produces a > strange list of SMC related words, while N(_) produces an error. > > Everything works fine after I do reset('_'); however, it has been > necessary to do this reset each time my students use SMC. > > This issue is pretty widespread, but I don't think all my students > experience it (not sure about this). > > Has anyone else run into this? > > Aaron > > P.S. Of course, it's possible to avoid using the underscore entirely. But > solve(derivative(x^2+y^2==25,x),derivative(y,x)) intimidates my students > enough as it is without adding a show at the front (and another set of > parentheses). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-cloud" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sage-cloud/720d1d38-712f-436c-974b-4d86e569c74b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cloud/720d1d38-712f-436c-974b-4d86e569c74b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Best Regards, William Stein CEO, SageMath, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-cloud" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cloud/CA%2BjwZMgmA7WVzmfbhf1ays87Gm20qM5fxRvfC5zwJVvogKV93w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
