On Jun 30, 3:07 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, kcrisman wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
>
> > Does anyone know what is going on here (the double Maxima exit)?  It
> > must have something to do with the sum loading, I guess, since this
> > doesn't happen with integration (see below).  If someone has an older
> > Sage it would be worth testing to make sure this happens there (this
> > was all incorporated in Sage 4.2.1, I think, and I don't think has
> > changed much since then).  Doing the steps in the code 'by hand' does
> > not yield the double exit.  Thanks!
>
> The calculus module uses its own instance of maxima so that it won't  
> mess up any user's maxima session (and visa-versa). This is almost  
> certainly where the double exit is coming from.

Yes, I know.  But I can't figure out where a different Maxima is used
- symbolic_sum lives in calculus.py, so it should be using the
calculus Maxima, right?  I just can't figure out where two different
Maximas (Maximae?) are being used here, and I'd appreciate help
tracking it down :(

- kcrisman

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