I have uploaded a patch to the trac, ticket 13732, which fixes this for all the plot commands that seem to accept alpha. (To find them, I performed a grep alpha sage/plot/*py and looked at those files.) The doctests in sage/plot pass for me, though I had to make some changes to older doctests because float gives a different output; I haven't yet tried doctesting anything outside of that directory.
I couldn't find anything that made the save command choke like this except the alpha option, though I didn't try very hard. I hope someone reviews it; it should be easy, unless I did something stupid. john perry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.