> I built a worksheet with several cells in the notebook, and then
> wanted to try to run it on a remote computer using the command line
> interface.  But I could not find a convincing way to export the
> worksheet to a simple text file that I could import directly to sage,
> i.e. a "something.sage" file.

> In the end, I had to copy and paste each cell separately into a text
> file on the remote machine, which I then imported with "load
> something.sage"  But this is clearly not a reasonable solution for a
> long worksheet.

> I tried the "Text" option in the worksheet, but that produced output
> which I could not just copy straight into the sage command line, or
> import with "load".

If Sage has an easy, automatic way of doing this, I'm not aware of it.
However, there's a couple ways to accomplish what you want to do
without doing a bunch of repetitive actions (for example, manually
copying out each the text cell). Unfortunately, both of my suggestions
require a bit of work:

(1) Open the worksheet through the notebook interface, then click on
the "Text" tab. Copy the text there, then write a little script to
strip out every line that doesn't begin with "sage: ". The lines that
have "sage: " prepended are lines in the input cells (assuming you
didn't type "sage: " somewhere in the worksheet itself). Strip out the
"sage: " text.

(2) You could tinker around with Notebook, Worksheet, and Cell objects
in Sage (using a script, command-line, or notebook interface). In
summary, you could create a Notebook object; get the desired Worksheet
object using one of the methods of the Notebook object; get a list of
Cell objects from the Worksheet; then pull out the input text from
each Cell object. The documentation for these objects are:

http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/notebook/notebook.html
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/notebook/worksheet.html
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/notebook/cell.html

Again, I'm (obviously) not aware of a cleaner way to just pull out the
input text from a worksheet, and these two suggestions are just the
work-arounds I could think of.

As a side-note, the inverse process (converting from plain-text
commands to a sage worksheet) is easy; just upload it through the
notebook interface.

-- Tianwei

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