On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 at 05:05PM -0800, William Stein wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 5:00 PM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In a .sage script file, I have:
> >
> > maple.eval('plotsetup(ps, plotoutput=`logplot.eps`, \
> > plotoptions=`portrait,noborder,color`)')
> > maple.eval('plot(log(2*x), x=1..2,filled=true,color=yellow, \
> > view=[.75..2.25,0..1.5])')
> >
> > but the corresponding .py file has, for the second command,
> >
> > maple.eval('plot(log(2*x), x=1..2,filled=true,color=yellow, \
> > view=(ellipsis_range(.75,Ellipsis,2.25,0,Ellipsis,1.5)))')
> >
> > Maple obviously doesn't understand this. It seems the preparser is a
> > bit too eager; it needs to ignore stuff that will get passed to
> > Maple or whatever. Can this be fixed?
>
> The problem is the multiple lines. Try the same thing but without the
> \ at the end of the line and see what happens.It works fine in that case...which I discovered (naturally) a minute or two after sending the message. Looks like the preparser is not aware of the backslash-continues-the-line convention. Dan -- --- Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://math.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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