first, you might be interested by this: L = zip(Vars,p.lm().exponents()[0].sparse_iter())
its faster but still not enough... then you might look at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7587, apply it ( review it ;) ) and do L = [(Vars[i],e) for i,e in enumerate(p.lm().exponents (as_ETuples=False)[0][:50]) if e] to get what you want. Yann -- 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