[sage-devel] factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Umm.. sage: R.x = QQ[] sage: f = x^3 - 2 sage: f.factor_padic(2) --- type 'exceptions.TypeError' Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/ipython console in module()

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
The reason is that that doctest has sage.: David On 10/18/07, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm.. sage: R.x = QQ[] sage: f = x^3 - 2 sage: f.factor_padic(2) --- type 'exceptions.TypeError'

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Roe
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. David On 10/18/07, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. david On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Roe wrote: The

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread David Harvey
Arrggghhh. When you do code inspection via factor_padic?, the period apparently gets filtered out. That's not very helpful somehow. david On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Roe wrote: The reason is that that doctest has sage.: David On 10/18/07, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Enhancing the SymbolicEquation class

2007-10-18 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: On 10/17/07, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about replace_right instead of change_right. How about eqn.expand() # does it to both sides eqn.expand('right') # does it to the right eqn.expand('left') # does it to the right Basically, every function

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
On 10/18/07, David Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. There were far more complaints when it did show up, since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, couldn't paste it into sessions, etc. I think it should be replaced by sage: f.factor_padic()

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:21 PM, William Stein wrote: On 10/18/07, David Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. There were far more complaints when it did show up, since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, couldn't paste it into sessions, etc.

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
Oops, forget the patch! Now it is attached. On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:09:04PM -0400, Joel B. Mohler wrote: A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on plots -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is even worse for this in

[sage-devel] plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on plots -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of funny things that I'd like a plotting guru to look at. It seems there

[sage-devel] Re: Enhancing the SymbolicEquation class

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
On 10/18/07, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been experimenting with making a subclass of SymbolicEquation called MutableSymbolicEquation but I like this approach better because it is simpler. OK. By the way, subclassing SymbolicEquation by MutableSymbolicEquation would be bad

[sage-devel] Fwd: cimport of extension classes?

2007-10-18 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 18, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: Re: cimport of extension classes? To: sage-newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sage team, sorry for asking my question: meanwhile i found the answer in another sage documentation. Rather

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread alex clemesha
On 10/18/07, Joel B. Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on plots -- I think they are too big. Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of funny things

[sage-devel] Re: factor_padic

2007-10-18 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:21 PM, William Stein wrote: On 10/18/07, David Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good idea. There were far more complaints when it did show up, since people got confused by it, though it was a typo, couldn't paste it into sessions, etc.

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread cwitty
On Oct 18, 2:00 pm, alex clemesha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering doing a semi-major clean up of the plotting functionality so please jot down improvements that you (or anyone) think could be made. See TRAC #924 for a bug-fix I would like. (I reported this in person at SD4, but I

[sage-devel] Re: plot margins

2007-10-18 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Thursday 18 October 2007 17:00, alex clemesha wrote: A couple of days ago I wrote to sage-support complaining about margins on plots -- I think they are too big.  Ironically, it seems that vanilla matplotlib is even worse for this in some respects, but sage does a couple of funny