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.
>
> I think it should be replaced by
>
>   sage: f.factor_padic()       # not tested
>
> i.e., "putting not tested" as  a comment has the same effect
> as sage.:.  I wrote the"sage." notation before there were
> doctesting comment modifiers.
>
> Does this seem ok with everybody?   Comment modifiers are definitely
> much clearer than "sage.:".

Sounds better to me.

>
>>
>> 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 reason is that that doctest has sage.:
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/18/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ummmmmm......
>>>>
>>>> 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>()
>>>>
>>>>
>> /Users/david/sage-2.8.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/rings/
>>>> polynomial/polynomial_element_generic.py in
>> factor_padic(self, p, prec)
>>>>      875         K = Qp(p, prec, type='capped-rel')
>>>>      876         R =
>>>> sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_ring.PolynomialRing(K,
>>>> names=self.parent().variable_name())
>>>> --> 877         return R(self).factor(absprec = prec)
>>>>      878
>>>>      879     def list(self):
>>>>
>>>> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: factor() got an unexpected keyword
>>>> argument 'absprec'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This happens on the current version of sage on sage.math, it also
>>>> happens on sage 2.8.5 on my machine at home. But that's exactly the
>>>> example code in the doctest for factor_padic! Why isn't it failing
>>>> doctests?
>>>>
>>>> david
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
> -- 
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
> 

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