#16750: libgap fails converting string GapElements to Sage
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       Reporter:  rws                 |        Owner:
           Type:  defect              |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major               |    Milestone:  sage-6.3
      Component:  interfaces          |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  conversion, string  |    Merged in:
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Report Upstream:  N/A                 |  Work issues:
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Comment (by vbraun):

 The single quote is a single character constant in GAP. There is no
 single-character type in Python...
 {{{
 sage: libgap.eval("'ca'")
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 ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call
 last)
 <ipython-input-27-41441932e6b8> in <module>()
 ----> 1 libgap.eval("'ca'")

 /home/vbraun/Code/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-
 packages/sage/libs/gap/libgap.so in sage.libs.gap.libgap.Gap.eval
 (build/cythonized/sage/libs/gap/libgap.c:3790)()

 /home/vbraun/Code/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-
 packages/sage/libs/gap/util.so in sage.libs.gap.util.gap_eval
 (build/cythonized/sage/libs/gap/util.c:4487)()

 ValueError: libGAP: Syntax error: missing single quote in character
 constant
 'ca';
  ^
 }}}

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