> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:28 PM, David Philp  
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> All the explanations that "sage can do that" have involved python  
> lists, because I used names and examples like 'data = {1, 2, 3}'.  But  
> the power of ReplaceAll (the /. operator) is that it places no  
> requirements on the form of the 'data' argument.

Agreed.  I just wanted to show that python has nice facilities for
list manipulation with all those examples, but there's no question
that Sage would benefit from more powerful pattern matching for
manipulating expressions that aren't lists.

JM
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