On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:42:47AM -0700, Mark Shimozono wrote:
> What is the official procedure for changing the name of a method?
>
> I have to fix a common error in two functions (in sage/combinat/
> root_system/root_lattice_realizations.py)
> which are element methods of root-lattice-realizations:
> to_positive_chamber and reduced_word.
> I want to call them to_dominant_chamber and weyl_direction.
> I'm open to even better names if someone has a suggestion.
> My current solution is to write two new functions (really one function
> and the second calls the first)
> and change the old ones to call the new ones. There were only a few
> uses of the old functions in the code (all occurring in doctests) and
> I changed the ones I found.
> Is there an easy way to check all the source code for a certain method
> call?
sage: search_src?
or in a terminal:
> cd <SAGE_ROOT>/devel/sage-combinat/sage
> grep -r to_positive_chamber .
If you are using zsh you can use instead:
> grep to_positive_chamber **/*.py
Beside, you should use
sage: sage.misc.misc.deprecated_function_alias?
to temporary let the method be accessible through its former name.
For a discussion on the topic, see
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8546
Cheers,
Nicolas
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