On Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:46:55 PM UTC-7, Starx wrote: > > The patchbot is reporting a doctest failure in a patch of mine: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12630#comment:10 > > The failure itself is completely benign, "a + b" is being returned > when "b + a" is expected, but the addition is commutative anyway. So > I'm not so concerned with the particular error as I am confused about > what one does when patchbot is getting different results than I am > because I just built a brand new copy of 5.0.beta7 and doctested my > patch and got no errors (OSX 10.6.8 if that matters). > > Should I change the doctest so that it it will pass for patchbot even > though it fails for me? Or should I assume something is funky with > patchbot and set the ticket back to needs_review with a comment about > the issue? > Answers like this can be platform-dependent, unless you have set up the print representation of the ring elements to be sorted somehow. So try it on a few different platforms (Mac, Linux, Solaris if you can). In this case, if you don't implement any sorting when you print things, and if Sage knows about the names a and b, you can change
sage: y b+a to sage: y == a+b True -- John -- 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
