#10618: Include David Perkinson's sandpile module in the sage library
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   Reporter:  mhampton                           |       Owner:  jason, ncohen, 
rlm    
       Type:  enhancement                        |      Status:  needs_work     
       
   Priority:  major                              |   Milestone:  sage-4.6.2     
       
  Component:  graph theory                       |    Keywords:  abelian 
sandpile model
     Author:  David Perkinson, Marshall Hampton  |    Upstream:  N/A            
       
   Reviewer:                                     |      Merged:                 
       
Work_issues:                                     |  
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Comment(by wdj):

 Replying to [comment:6 mhampton]:
 > OK, all tests pass for me now and the coverage is 100%.
 >


 Not for me:

 {{{
 sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/sandpiles/sandpile.py"
 **********************************************************************
 File
 "/Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-4.6.1.rc1/devel/sage/sage/sandpiles/sandpile.py",
 line 5173:
     sage: for p in P:
        sum([partition_sandpile(S, i).betti(verbose=False)[-Integer(1)] for
 i in p])
 Exception raised:
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "/Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/bin/ncadoctest.py",
 line 1231, in run_one_test
         self.run_one_example(test, example, filename, compileflags)
       File "/Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/bin/sagedoctest.py",
 line 38, in run_one_example
         OrigDocTestRunner.run_one_example(self, test, example, filename,
 compileflags)
       File "/Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/bin/ncadoctest.py",
 line 1172, in run_one_example
         compileflags, 1) in test.globs
       File "<doctest __main__.example_160[3]>", line 1, in <module>
         for p in P:###line 5173:
     sage: for p in P:
     NameError: name 'P' is not defined
 **********************************************************************
 1 items had failures:
    1 of   5 in __main__.example_160
 ***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
 }}}
 This sort of failure occurs on both a 10.6.6 imac and an ubuntu machine.


 > The only problem that I see now is how to deal with namespace issues.
 > I think classes like "Divisor" have too general a name to get imported
 into
 > Sage at the top level, which is what this patch currently does.
 > I see three alternatives at least:
 >
 > 1) Rename functions and classes to be clearly sandpile specific.
 > E.g., rename the Divisor class to something like SandpileDivisor.
 >


 I agree. I actually suggested this when David P was asking for suggestions
 years ago in reply to his post asking for comments on a first version.

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