----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Moreover, it's crucial that pexpect > be available and work well -- I don't think it's available in native > Windows Python > (but I could be wrong -- I just can't see how it would be possible).
I'm not sure about pexpect (other than in cygwin), but Expect is certainly available and is included in the ActiveState tcl/tk Windows distribution. > Anyway, if one uses SAGE via the notebook, then the interface is via a > standard > windows program (e.g., Firefox) That's another quirk - one has to use that ugly Linux-wise looking alien Firefox instead of the nice and friendly IE7 :) >, so in that case the problems you mentioned > above don't apply. That, certainly, doesn't apply for using SAGE. And it looks quite nice in Firefox. I put a screenshot of it on my magic_square page, http://mihailovs.com/Alec/Python/magic_square.html That applies for developing in SAGE. > Also, if you use SAGE via the command line in Cygwin, the > default is to use the standard windows command console... which sucks. Well, it's not that bad in Windows XP and Vista, especially PowerShell. The colors can be nicely adjusted, too, as well as the buffer size. > However, > if you install the "rxvt" Cygwin package and use it instead, it is very > nice > (as long as you know that "shift click" is paste and hilight is copy). I use rxvt (mostly as a toy) - but just because of the necessity to use something. It's usable for small things, but for larger projects, especially involving debugging, one needs a serious IDE. > The SAGE notebook under windows via Cygwin is way too sluggish still (at > least > startup times are), and we hope to speed it up. I don't use it that much. It seems to be working better in cygwin than it did in colinux though. After using Maple for a long time, I automatically use Enter and Shift+Enter in the opposite way that Mathematica does. It's not that easy to adjust to that :) Alec --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
