Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-12 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote: I should take a look... After many *days* of debugging, I think I'm getting somewhere: whether or not the errors occur seems to depend on the number of *characters* in $DOT_SAGE (and therefore, the number of characters in $HOME) in relation to the number

Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-12 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for your work on this. I'm in the middle of exam marking (grading) so cannot help John On 12 January 2012 10:22, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote: I should take a look... After many *days* of debugging, I think I'm getting

Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-12 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote: On Jan 10, 2012 2:59 PM, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be mailto:jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: Who knows about pexpect and Sage's use of it? I certainly don't. I think a big project to review/refactor the pexpect interfaces is in order.

Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-11 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote: I would say that me and Mike Hansen both know it very well. From my perspective, it's not that complicated and I don't think it needs to be refactored. Maybe the problem lies with pexpect upstream rather than Sage's use of pexpect? I don't know. I

Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-11 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote: I should take a look... There is also http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12294 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For

Re: [sage-devel] pexpect troubles

2012-01-10 Thread William Stein
On Jan 10, 2012 2:59 PM, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: Who knows about pexpect and Sage's use of it? I certainly don't. I think a big project to review/refactor the pexpect interfaces is in order. I would say that me and Mike Hansen both know it very well. From my