Nick Alexander wrote: >> Note that we already do that for things like parametric_plot, >> derivatives, etc. > > And it's a continual pain in the ass. Telling the difference between > a list, tuple, sequence, iterator, vector, multiple arguments, etc... > in Python, it's just all so inconsistent. But it seems like the > feature is wanted, so no matter how inconsistent and buggy it all is, > we'll add it. >
Actually, in thinking about this more, I think I was wrong in saying this conversation was like what happens for parametric_plot and derivatives. In the case of parametric_plot, we treat a vector as a list, so parametric_plot(v,...) is the same as parametric_plot(list(v),...). In the case of derivatives, we do things component-wise, so diff(v,...) is treated as v.apply_map(lambda x: diff(x,...)). Wow; both of those cases are not only not like what we are talking about now, but they are also not even like each other. Sorry! Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
