#6650: semicolon does not hide output in notebook
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Reporter: hemmecke | Owner:
boothby
Type: defect | Status:
closed
Priority: major | Milestone:
sage-4.3.1
Component: misc | Resolution:
invalid
Keywords: | Author:
Upstream: Reported upstream. Developers deny it's a bug. | Reviewer:
Merged: | Work_issues:
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Changes (by was):
* upstream: Reported upstream. Little or no feedback. => Reported
upstream. Developers deny it's a bug.
Comment:
{{{
Hi William,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:52 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> SO, now I think this is a bug in *IPython*, not the sage notebook.
> What do you think?
It's by design: one of the few places where early on, I explicitly and
deliberately deviated from default python behavior.
In interactive computing, one often ends up having computations that
are known to produce gigantic output, and it's nice to have a simple
way to say "don't print the result of this computation, just do it".
I just checked and it turns out that matlab works this way too (though
I didn't know that at the time, I hadn't tried matlab then):
>> 1
ans =
1
>> 1;
>>
I rely on this feature quite often, and I consider it a huge annoyance
of the default python shell that you can not suppress output without
making an assignment.
Cheers,
F
}}}
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