Hi,
<x> has been only a placeholder.
In your case you probably would have to enter
load('/Users/ataylor/research/Students/EliseAndrew/sageprogram.sage')
Good luck with it!
Tobi
On 06/12/2010 04:06 PM, ataylor wrote:
>
> Tobias,
>
> We are using the notebook, but knowing how to do it command line is
> also helpful.
>
> So it is true that we did not know to use < >. However, I'm still
> doing something wrong. I entered
>
> load </Users/ataylor/research/Students/EliseAndrew/sageprogram.sage>
>
> and I know this is closer because my error changed. The error now
> says
>
> ValueError: argument
> (='</Users/ataylor/research/Students/EliseAndrew/sageprogram.sage>\
> ') to load or attach must have extension py, sage, or pyx
>
> But our program does have the extension sage. So I'm not sure why it
> is telling me this.
>
> - Amelia
>
> On Jun 12, 1:28 am, Tobias Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Amelia,
>> How did you try to load the file?
>> I guess you are using the notebook.
>> There it is possible to load a file with
>> load('<absolute_path>').
>>
>> If you are using the command line version you can also use
>> run <absolute or relative path>
>> or
>> run -i <absolute or relative path>
>> for running your script in the actual namespace.
>>
>> Cheers..
>>
>> On 06/12/2010 06:07 AM, ataylor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>
>>> I have a MacOS 10.5.8 and while I used sage a long time ago, I have
>>> students who need to use sage now and so am being reintroduced.
>>
>>> Today we wrote a little for loop and called the file sageprogram.sage
>>> just to get started. However, we cannot, for the life of us load the
>>> file into sage.
>>
>>> (1) we did check the sage path and put the file into a folder that is
>>> definitely on the path --- namely /Applications/sage/
>>
>>> (2) The error we get is
>>
>>> Traceback (click to the left of this block for traceback)
>>> ...
>>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'sageprogram.sage'
>>
>>> Which makes sense if the file is not on the path searched by sage, but
>>> it appears to be so.
>>
>>> Clearly sage is not finding the program. However, we can't find
>>> anything (looked in the tutorial and the reference manual) to help us
>>> help sage find the file. In the tutorial where it talks about loading
>>> and attaching files it does not say anything about paths or where to
>>> place the files.
>>
>>> - Amelia
>
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