Sounds good to me. See http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17366.

  John


On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 10:42:15 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote:
>
> Yes, DWIM and convert the argument to the ring if it is not already there.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:24:12 PM UTC, John H Palmieri wrote:
>>
>> From #17205:
>>
>> sage: x, y = ZZ['x','y'].gens()
>> sage: GF(1091)['x','y'].random_element().degree(x) 
>> 2
>> sage: GF(3037000453)['x','y'].random_element().degree(x) 
>> ...
>> TypeError: x must be one of the generators of the parent.
>>
>> I don't think the behavior should be different the polynomial rings over 
>> GF(1091) and GF(3037000453), but I don't know what the right behavior 
>> should be. Should x (which is one of the generators of ZZ[x,y]) be 
>> automatically coerced to an element of GF(p)[x,y] when we call 
>> elt.degree(x)?
>>
>> -- 
>> John
>>
>>

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