On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 11:37:38 PM UTC-4, Martin R wrote: > > Oh, now that's an explanation! So the explanation in the third post on > this thread, > displayhook: calls __repr__ on the value of the last statement and > sends to stdout > was a bit misleading. >
Well that was about plain Python... Thanks for clarifying. (In turn, this begs the question, when is repr used > for display instead of rich_repr?) > _repr_ is used if an object does not implement _rich_repr_ or if _rich_repr_ does not return anything. So the point really is that, at least for me personally, having rich_repr > return graphics in the console (for any object, not only graphs) is very > very undesirable. > Presumably you find it desirable to display Graphics() objects (the return value of plot()) as picture, so there is that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
