On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 at 10:24PM -0700, Timothy Clemans wrote:
> Instead of actually modifying Python to fix some annoyances Sage uses
> IPython to preparse the code. For example in Sage "4 ^ 6" is preparsed
> into "4 ** 6".

I think he's curious about Integer() being applied twice, when once is
obviously enough.

I just looked at an autogenerated .py file, and I only see things like
_sage_const_1 = Integer(1)...Greg, where do you have 2's in your
original .sage file?

Dan


> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Greg Kuperberg
> <greg.kuperb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.  I see that when I make file called foo.sage, sage precompiles it
> > into another file called foo.py.  The code statement in this file is:
> >
> > _sage_const_2 = Integer(Integer(2))
> >
> > Surely this is wrong?  Maybe it does not matter if this Python code is
> > only executed once.  But still it looks strange.

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