On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:34:05 PM UTC+8, William wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:59 PM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > The problem you are running into is that when you are on the command 
> line, 
> > all the needed functions are loaded (this is a reason why the Sage 
> startup 
> > takes time). When you are writing your own library, you need to import 
> > modules that you need. 
> > 
> > You can do that by simply adding 
> > 
> > from sage.all import * 
> > 
> > at the top of your file. If you want to have finer grained import, then 
> you 
> > will need to look at the function you are calling. You can either look 
> at 
> > the help by doing (for example) 
>
> Unfortunately, I recommend that you do *not* do what Purkayastha is 
> suggesting here, unless you really like your code to mysterious 
> crash/segfault, etc.    It is not safe to import anything from the 
> sage library if you have not done "import sage.all".  The import order 
> is critically important, and is done correctly in "sage.all".  If you 
> try to cherry pick bits out of Sage, you are asking for serious 
> trouble. 
>
>  -- William

 
Interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out.

But is there no way to not import everything? Suppose I am interested in 
only calculus bits. Then do I still need to import everything from sage.all 
instead of only importing from sage.calculus.all?

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