On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> I have been an EPD user on OS X and decided to give it a try for Sage.
> However on the first place i encountered some problems and i was
> wondering if somebody could give a hand...
>
> 1. How can somebody start an ipython session in the terminal. After i
> uninstalled EPD asking for ipython in terminal simply gives:
>
> hcp165:~ vasilis$ ipython
> -bash: ipython: command not found
> dhcp165:~ vasilis$
>
> Now if i start sage in the teminal mode and ask for ipython i get:
>
> Last login: Mon Jan 12 14:56:00 on ttys000
> dhcp165:~ vasilis$ /Applications/sage/sage ; exit;
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 3.2.3, Release Date: 2009-01-05 |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sage: ipython
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NameError Traceback (most recent call
> last)
>
> /Users/vasilis/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> NameError: name 'ipython' is not defined
> sage:
>
>
> The same of course happens if i want to start ipython in the -pylab
> mode.
Type
sage -ipython
Or
sage: !ipython
>
>
> 2. From inside sage in notebook mode it looks like all numpy , scipy
> pylab libraries are imported without problem. Though when i ask for an
> interactive plot with pylab.show() i can simply get nothing out of it.
> However plotting with pylab seems to be working ok as i can generate
> line instances and save them with pylab.savefig('filename')
That's true. Sage doesn't currently include the interactive gui support
by deafault that is needed for pylab.show(). See
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/ffa884a9ddce1d1f
for a recent discussion of this.
>
> Any help will be very much appreciated
>
> Cheers
> Vas
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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