Hi! On Mar 4, 8:35 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: [...] > I think we can have the names there without importing all the code > behind everything. With tab completion, a huge global namespace isn't > that bad.
How would this be possible, technically? I mean, is there a technical solution that does not require python to be patched? Perhaps modifying the sage preparser: - At startup, virtually nothing of sage.all is imported, but the names of things in sage.all are known, and it is known where to import them from. Let SageAllNames be a dictionary that associates the name with the location for import. - The preparser could detect whether a given command line contains an identifier N outside an import or assign statement, with N in SageAllNames.keys(). If not globals().has_key(N), the preparser would prepend "from %s import %s"%(SageAllNames[N],N) to the given command line. - It would be easy to modify tab completion so that SageAllNames.keys() is accessible to tab completion. Would that be feasible? I think it could reduce the startup time considerably. A user wouldn't notice any change during an interactive session. And since it only concerns the preparser, it would not break any code. Cheers, Simon -- 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
