On 8/29/12 5:11 PM, John H Palmieri wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:53:33 PM UTC-7, Anne Schilling wrote:
> 
>     In principle, reading the documentation of Partitions the command
> 
>     sage: RestrictedPartitions(5,[3,2,1], 3).list()
>     [[3, 1, 1], [2, 2, 1]]
> 
>     should be achieved by
> 
>     sage: Partitions(5, parts_in = [3,2,1], max_length=3)
>     Partitions of the integer 5 with parts in [1, 2, 3]
> 
>     but unfortunately max_length is not taken into account:
> 
>     sage: Partitions(5, parts_in = [3,2,1], max_length=3).list()
>     [[3, 2], [3, 1, 1], [2, 2, 1], [2, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]]
> 
>     Is this a bug?
> 
> 
> The documentation for Partitions says
> 
>        Right now, the "parts_in", "starting", and "ending" keyword
>        arguments are mutually exclusive, both of each other and of other
>        keyword arguments. If you specify, say, "parts_in", all other
>        keyword arguments will be ignored; "starting" and "ending" work the
>        same way.
> 
> So it's not a bug: it's documented. (Not ideal behavior, I think, but at 
> least it's documented.)

Then I think the functionality of RestrictedPartitions should be fully 
implemented in Partitions
by allowing several keyword entries.

Best,

Anne

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