#17808: Preparse integers as strings
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       Reporter:  jdemeyer     |        Owner:
           Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major        |    Milestone:  sage-6.6
      Component:  misc         |   Resolution:
       Keywords:               |    Merged in:
        Authors:               |    Reviewers:
Report Upstream:  N/A          |  Work issues:
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Description changed by jdemeyer:

Old description:

> Currently we have
> {{{
> sage: print preparse("100")
> Integer(100)
> sage: preparse("100.0")
> RealNumber('100.0')
> }}}
> but the first could be changed to
> {{{
> sage: print preparse("100")
> Integer('100')
> }}}
>
> This has two advantages:
>
> 1. it would be a lot faster for large numbers since MPIR is
> asymptotically faster than Python:
> {{{
> sage: s="1" + "0"*10000
> sage: timeit("""eval('Integer(%s)')""" % s)
> 625 loops, best of 3: 761 µs per loop
> sage: timeit("""eval('Integer("%s")')""" % s)
> 625 loops, best of 3: 151 µs per loop
> }}}
> For small numbers, there is a slight slowdown though:
> {{{
> sage: s="1000"
> sage: timeit("""eval('Integer(%s)')""" % s)
> 625 loops, best of 3: 9.56 µs per loop
> sage: timeit("""eval('Integer("%s")')""" % s)
> 625 loops, best of 3: 11 µs per loop
> }}}
>
> 2. It solves #17807: thanks to #17413, entering `0100` will give a
> deprecation warning so at users should know something funny is going on
> when they enter `0100`.

New description:

 Currently we have
 {{{
 sage: print preparse("100")
 Integer(100)
 sage: preparse("100.0")
 RealNumber('100.0')
 }}}
 but the first could be changed to
 {{{
 sage: print preparse("100")
 Integer('100')
 }}}

 This has two advantages:

 1. it would be a lot faster for large numbers since MPIR is asymptotically
 faster than Python:
 {{{
 sage: s="1" + "0"*10000
 sage: timeit("""eval('Integer(%s)')""" % s)
 625 loops, best of 3: 761 µs per loop
 sage: timeit("""eval('Integer("%s")')""" % s)
 625 loops, best of 3: 151 µs per loop
 }}}
 For small numbers, there is a slight slowdown though:
 {{{
 sage: s="1000"
 sage: timeit("""eval('Integer(%s)')""" % s)
 625 loops, best of 3: 9.56 µs per loop
 sage: timeit("""eval('Integer("%s")')""" % s)
 625 loops, best of 3: 11 µs per loop
 }}}

 2. It solves #17807: thanks to #17413, entering `0100` will give a
 deprecation warning so that users should know something funny is going on:
 {{{
 sage: 0100
 /usr/local/src/sage-git/local/lib/python2.7/site-
 packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:2883: DeprecationWarning: use 0o
 as octal prefix instead of 0
 See http://trac.sagemath.org/17413 for details.
   exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
 64
 }}}

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