This is perhaps related, but I found that using one-line permutation notation is rather dangerous. It would be nice to have some more input checking here, perhaps with an optional check=True argument to switch it off if you have to:
sage: Permutation([3,2]) # invalid one-line notation [3, 2] sage: _.cycle_string() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IndexError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/vbraun/<ipython console> in <module>() /home/vbraun/Sage/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/combinat/permutation.pyc in cycle_string(self, singletons) 369 '(1,2)(3)' 370 """ --> 371 cycles = self.to_cycles(singletons=singletons) 372 if cycles == []: 373 return "()" /home/vbraun/Sage/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/combinat/permutation.pyc in to_cycles(self, singletons) 557 while next != cycleFirst: 558 cycle.append( next ) --> 559 l[next - 1], next = False, l[next - 1] 560 #Add the cycle to the list of cycles 561 if singletons or len(cycle) > 1: IndexError: list index out of range -- 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