On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On 07/08/2017 22:53, David Roe wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Vincent Delecroix < >> 20100.delecr...@gmail.com >> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> On 07/08/2017 19:47, David Roe wrote:> But I think that Sage >>> >>> integers should compare the same as python ints >>>> >>>> I agree and with Python 3 you get an error >>> >>> $ python >>> Python 3.6.2 (default, Jul 20 2017, 03:52:27) >>> [GCC 7.1.1 20170630] on linux >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>>> sorted([1,2,'a']) >>>>>> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >>> TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int' >>> >>> which is even better. >>> >>> >> Sure, and I'm fine with that change once we switch to python 3 (or if we >> make that change actually true for Sage integers). But in the mean time, >> I >> think that we should keep compatibility between ints and Integers, which >> means adjusting the comparison with strings. >> >> Which still leaves the second part of Stefan's question: how do we get >> consistent doctest output in contexts where we have been sorting? >> >> Perhaps the right answer is to add a tag to the doctest framework. >> Something like >> >> sage: [1,2,'a'] # unordered >> ['a',2,1] >> > > Introducing a new tag is too much pain. You are asking for the order of > something that have no natural order. I would just do > > sage: set(l1) == set(l2) > True That doesn't work if the entries aren't hashable, and also doesn't show the entries, which can be a problem if you're also trying to document the function for users. David > > Vincent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
