Re: [sage-devel] Writing a piece about import in the developers guide.

2011-08-30 Thread Benjamin Jones
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > +1 for any tool to reduce/simplify the number of imports. Everybody adds > imports if something is missing, but nobody takes out imports after > rewriting a module. Its not hard to find unused imports, as a random example > sage/rings/polynom

Re: [sage-devel] Writing a piece about import in the developers guide.

2011-08-30 Thread Volker Braun
+1 for any tool to reduce/simplify the number of imports. Everybody adds imports if something is missing, but nobody takes out imports after rewriting a module. Its not hard to find unused imports, as a random example sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_rational_flint.pyx imports is_Polynomial but

Re: [sage-devel] Writing a piece about import in the developers guide.

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:21 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Maarten Derickx > wrote: >> At the last sage-days there were some people working on making sage start up >> faster. I think it would be nice to have a short piece in the documentation >> about "best practices

Re: [sage-devel] Writing a piece about import in the developers guide.

2011-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Maarten Derickx wrote: > At the last sage-days there were some people working on making sage start up > faster. I think it would be nice to have a short piece in the documentation > about "best practices for importing" so that all sage developers have a > reference

[sage-devel] Writing a piece about import in the developers guide.

2011-08-29 Thread Maarten Derickx
At the last sage-days there were some people working on making sage start up faster. I think it would be nice to have a short piece in the documentation about "best practices for importing" so that all sage developers have a reference point on how to deal with these difficulties. Before I can w