William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/4/1 Joel B. Mohler <j...@kiwistrawberry.us>: >>> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 07:44:17 am John Cremona wrote: >>>> I had already tried that variation. No luck! >>>> >>>> mas...@host-56-150%echo $SAGE_PATH >>>> /home/masgaj/sage >>>> mas...@host-56-150%pwd >>>> /home/masgaj/sage >>>> mas...@host-56-150%sage -t /home/masgaj/sage/egros.py >>>> sage -t "/home/masgaj/sage/egros.py" >>>> File "./egros.py", line 18 >>>> from /home/masgaj/sage/egros import * >>>> ^ >>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> What about?: >>> >>> mas...@host-56-150%cd /home/masgaj/sage >>> mas...@host-56-150%sage -t egros.py >>> >> I had aready tried that too, as reported earlier: the result is much >> worse since it looks as if none os sage is getting imported at all, >> the first failure being NameError: global name 'QQ' is not defined >> >> PROBLEM SOLVED!! I added the line >> >> from sage.all import * >> >> at the top of the .py file and now all is well. I'm sure that all the >> helpful people who have been firing suggestion at me cannot believe >> that I did not know that I had to do that. >> >> Summary instructions to test a stand-alone .py file, say test.py: >> >> 1. No need to set any environment variables >> 2. Put the line >> from sage.all import * >> at the top of the file >> 3. cd to the directory the file is in >> 4. sage -t test.py >> >> John > > Yes. The "sage -t foo.py" thing only does "from foo import *" -- it > doesn't import the whole Sage library too. Maybe it should? That > would be easy to add, I think.
+1 on making sage -t my_file.py work with minimal hassle. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
