Aaron, This _ bug is now fixed (requires project restart if project is long running).
This was caused by us fixing show_identifiers() to properly only show newly defined variables. -- William On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:03 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ms >> gid/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. > -- 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%2BjwZMiP6NYy6OyogyM56OnZ7kjf2izXTSjsdfWWyihz_6UMMQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
