On Aug 28, 4:34 pm, Simon Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well any python code fails to work as expected: > > try: sage-python -c "import sys" > File "<string>", line 1 > import > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > ... -c "print;print" # will print two line feeds however > > this came up when trying to configure boost for sage, wherein > configure has: > > $PYTHON -c "import sys; print (\"%d.%d\" % (sys.version_info[0], > sys.version_info[1]))"`
"sage-python" is a shell script that sends its arguments to the Sage python (assuming sage is in your path). Evidently it is buggy. However, you don't want to be using sage-python anyway; instead, you want to arrange things so that $PYTHON points to $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/ python . Carl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
