William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jason Grout > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't >> work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to >> syntax in Sage. Are there any objections to making a file of the >> @interact examples so that it is easy to spot when they need to be >> updated through normal doctesting? > > How would it work? What would you put in the file. > > I think it would be much better to make a while directory in the main > Sage tree of examples, along > with an organized namespace, e.g., something like > > sage: interacts.<tab> > sage: interacts.calculus.<tab> > sage: interacts.calculus.derivative() > up pops the interact > > Regarding doctesting, that may require some extension to how interact > works? I.e., some special function like > > sage: interacts.calculus.derivative.test() > > that would do something clever. >
Nice idea! As things are right now, if I define an interact function interacts.calculus.vector_motion_2d then someone could call it up by: interact(interacts.calculus.vector_motion_2d) (except that it would also then return the function object, which is kind of ugly at the end of the output) I agree that having a function which tests interacts would be nice. Things could be automated a bit by having an interact control having a random_value method which generates a random value for the control. Then the interact_test function would just construct the appropriate interact control for each argument of a function, ask for a random value, and then pass those random values into the function. I'm not sure exactly what your suggestion for a place for code was, but reading your answer above and replacing "while" with "whole", I agree that a new directory is called for. Shall we call it "interacts", or a more general name like "examples"? Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
