On 10/8/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:34 AM, cwitty wrote:
> > True. However, a few days ago I realized there is a much better
> > solution to this problem. Use ... in the output. E.g., instead
> > of something like
> >
> > sage: sin(1.0) # random low-order bits
> > 0.841470984807897
> >
> > we do
> >
> > sage: sin(1.0)
> > 0.8414709848078...
>
> This sounds good, but what about "piping" issues (take the print
> output of one function and give it as input to another)? Currently,
> we get
>
> sage: xxx= 0.8414709848078...
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> File "<ipython console>", line 1
> xxx= RealNumber('0.8414709848078E')llipsis
> ^
> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: invalid syntax
>
> I often copy/paste between windows running different SAGEs, or even
> print to files and read back, so this isn't entirely bogus.
I'm sorry for not being clearer -- you completely misunderstood
my proposal. I am *only* suggesting that the actual doctest
output be changed to have ...'s in cases where the lower order
bits are random. I am *NOT* suggesting changing the actual
output of Sage to have ...'s.
William
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