Rather than distinguishing the different backends, I was more worried about how
to keep what related doctests currently give us. For example, in
src/doc/fr/tutorial/latex.rst, pretty_print is advertised as a way to obtain
nicely formatted MathJax output:
sage: pretty_print(x^12)
<html><script
type="math/tex">\newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}x^{12}</script></html>
I suppose this is exactly what is used in the notebook to format the output. If
the default display mode was `plain`, I would not know how to rephrase this
doctest other than changing the display mode before and after the test, which
is suboptimal in the tutorials.
Admittedly though, with the command line backend, the same command outputs
sage: pretty_print(x^12)
\newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}x^{12}
so arguably a dichotomy is already there. With display mode `plain`, we get
sage: pretty_print(x^12)
x^12
which is the same as just printing the object.
It seems generally difficult, if not impossible, to write tests for different
backends, as we only use the doctest backend during doctests. Though, I assume
that the MathJax output is sufficiently tested elsewhere, so changing the
default behavior of pretty_print for the commandline and doctests should not be
a problem after all.
> Am 30.01.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Nils Bruin <[email protected]>:
>
> On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 1:17:14 PM UTC-8, Nils Bruin wrote:
> prints as 'The Sage display manager using the IPython command line backend'
> and 'The Sage display manager using the IPython notebook backend'
> respectively, so they're already distinguishable. Setting different defaults
> in these different cases doesn't seem like a problem to me.
>
> Oops, and as the documentation of display_manager says, in doctests, you get
> back: 'The Sage display manager using the doctest backend', so there's a
> third one! Perhaps we should try and keep that one aligned with the command
> line, since those both communicate through character streams (whereas the
> notebook one communicates through a message passing interface)
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