#18302: Deprecate / warn against show()
----------------------+----------------------------
Reporter: vbraun | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.7
Component: misc | Keywords:
Merged in: | Authors:
Reviewers: | Report Upstream: N/A
Work issues: | Branch:
Commit: | Dependencies:
Stopgaps: |
----------------------+----------------------------
The `show()` function is an alias for `pretty_print()`. The latter is far
less confusing, its just like `print()` except that it makes use of rich
output (graphics etc). But just `show(x)` is hardly self-explanatory, and
in fact it is often misused in our own tutorials, e.g.
{{{
sage: P = parametric_plot(...)
sage: show(P) # no need to write show() here
}}}
If you know just a little bit of Python then you would't type in
{{{
sage: x = 123
sage: print(x)
}}}
but many users are not aware of the show <-> print analogy.
--
Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18302>
Sage <http://www.sagemath.org>
Sage: Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica,
and MATLAB
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"sage-trac" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-trac.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
