William Stein wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Nathann Cohen<nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello !!!
>>
>> Starting from a kind of troll related to the next-to-be tour for
>> Graphs in Sage ( I wanted to color the map of western europe, but the
>> majority of Sage's users do not live there ), I tried to build a graph
>> of the whole world by using your dear CIA's data ( available freely on
>> their website )
>>
>> Do you think it would be interesting to add it to the graph generators
>> in Sage ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> It could be available as graphs.WorldMap() :-)
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, I have a small problem : how to include it ? I generated it by
>> parsing again and again several files, then building the final graph
>> through Python, but the only way I have now to share this graph is to
>> write it by g.write().
>
> Why not just include a pickle of it? Make sure there is a doctest
> that involves creating it, so that we can't release a version of Sage
> if this pickle breaks.
>
> And if you say you can't pickle it, then something is wrong with
> pickling graphs, and we have a bigger problem to worry about!
>
> In case you don't know, you can use pickle as follows:
>
> sage: save(G, 'g.sobj')
> sage: G = load('g.sobj')
>
Can we include binary data files with Sage? I thought for some reason
this was frowned upon.
If we can include pickles, then I agree, pickling it would be the
easiest option.
Jason
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