On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:24 AM, David Loeffler
<d.a.loeff...@warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 4 October 2012 00:57, Maarten Derickx <m.derickx.stud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The reason is that q_expansion_basis returns power series and not modular
>> forms:
>
> Yes, I know, but in practice one often wants to know if a given power
> series is the q-expansion of an element of the space, and it seems
> strange to me that you can do this by the ugly method of calling
> "M(v)" and testing whether it raises an error, but you can't just use
> "in". Maybe it's a matter of taste.
>
> David

You're probably right, given the way in tends to work, e.g.,

sage: GF(3)(2) in ZZ
True

sage: 7/1 in ZZ
True

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