William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would love to have a script that converts old names in a whole >> worksheet to new names. Every time someone deprecates an old name, he >> could add the relevant line to the script. >> >> Would that be possible? What I would love even more, is a notebook >> conversion function such as the one that converted my old notebook to >> the sage 4.2 format, but I suppose this is not possible for more >> complicated changes than just names. MMA asks the user to "Scan notebook >> for possible issues" if you open an old notebook with a new version of >> MMA, but this is not always helpful. > > Wow, this is the most interesting suggestion I've heard so far related > to deprecation and renaming of functions in Sage. It would be great > if we had a framework for doing the above... if it's possible. It's > hard to imagine how it could be though, given how incredibly dynamic > Python is. It seems like the easiest thing is to just run your code > and view the deprecation warnings that are emitted. This would work > so long as we never remove anything we deprecate, which seems silly. > > So, it would be cool to have something like you describe, but I have > no idea how to implement it, or even if it is possible.
Could we use the compiler module (http://docs.python.org/library/compiler.html) to parse the file and walk the nodes in the ast, replacing or modifying things as needed? Thanks, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
