On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 at 01:26PM -0800, jtyard wrote: >> > I'm running sage 4.6.1 and cannot use plot after loading mpmath. >> > Namely, running >> > >> > > from mpmath import * >> > > plot(lambda t: sin(2*pi*t), [1, 4]) >> > >> > produces no output in the notebook. I'm loading mpmath because I need >> > to make plots of theta functions, and the page >> > >> > >> > http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/build/functions/elliptic.html# >> > jacobi-theta-functions >> > >> > tells me to first run "from mpmath import *" to gain access to jtheta. >> >> I'm not 100% sure what's going on, but I do see that mpmath has its own >> plot function, and your "from mpmath import *" line overwrites Sage's >> usual plot function with mpmath's. >> >> This works: >> >> sage: import mpmath >> sage: plot(lambda t: mpmath.sin(2*pi*t), (1,4)) >> >> So I guess the question is, why isn't mpmath's plot function working? >> > Interestingly mpmath-0.16 and 0.17 have support for matplotlib so presumably > those can use matplotlib for plot.
mpmath basically justs calls pylab.show(), which doesn't do anything in the notebook (nor in the Sage interpreter). We could hack mpmath in Sage to be more clever. Alternatively, perhaps a better solution would to make pylab.show() work in Sage. Is this feasible? Fredrik -- 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
