Great! Thank you. My students will be happy.

On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 8:15:35 AM UTC-10, William Stein wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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] 
>> <javascript:>> 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).
>>>
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