To avoid massive confusion the __xor__ operator is not defined for SAGE integers. Instead use the _xor function, which will be very fast:
sage: n = 5; m = 17 sage: n._xor(m) 20 On 6/8/07, Andrew Budker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm getting the following error when calling the xor operator from > a .py file: > because sage interprets ^ as exponentiation, i imported the xor > function from operator. > whats even stranger, is that the xor seems to work from the command > line just fine. > > > --> 178 t0 = self.ideaMultiply(roundSubKeys[4], > xor(temp[0],temp[2])) > > > /home/abudker/Desktop/199/sage-2.5.0.2/devel/sage-main/sage/crypto/ > element.pyx in element.Element.__xor__() > > <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: Use ** for exponentiation, not '^', > which means xor > > thanks, > > -Andrew Budker > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
