Hello guys ! 1) I wanted to review #12867, and I then noticed that the function which returns a "random word of length n on k letters" is so bad that I should be rewritten rather than fixed.
sage: Words(2, 50).random_element() # Should return a binary sequence of length 50 <You will die before it answers> I then began to fix it. It cannot be long. 2) Then I noticed (don't remember why) that a LOT of code in combinat/combinat.py was deprecated. I created #15466, then noticed that there was a lot more in the combinat/ folder, some of it deprecated THREE YEARS AGO. I began to fix that, and to update all the files with functions deprecated more than one year ago. 3) I then had to fix the doctests, as some of them still used the deprecated functions, and this is what I was still doing 10 minutes ago when I noticed that some of it couldn't be fixed by just using the advised new functions. Indeed, here is the list of partitions of 10 of length 3 using elements from [2,3,4] only : sage: list(Partitions(10,parts_in=[2,3,4], length=3)) [[4, 4, 2], [4, 3, 3], [4, 2, 2, 2], [3, 3, 2, 2], [2, 2, 2, 2, 2]] Pretty, isn't it ? 4) I am now trying to fix this bad behaviour if I can achieve it before being really angry and swearing that I will never touch this folder again as I usually end up doing. I may make it. I may not. Still, I thought I would drop you a line because once more, reading your code is costing me an afternoon. What can I do ? One thousand times I said this, and nothing ever happened. Very often you know the problems exist, and well, "we will do this later". So I thought I would drop you a line, because this carelessness in a public software cost other people time. And more importantly, in my case, calm. Nathann_who_is_patching_this_cursed_combinat_folder_again -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
