> Like for matrices, to come back to the topic?
Indeed, repr(a_matrix) doesn't follow Python's syntax. And list of
matrices is even worse:
sage: [matrix.ones(4) for i in range(4)]
[
[1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1] [1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1], [1 1 1 1], [1 1 1 1], [1 1 1 1]
]
> Also, is the Sage output primarily for humans or primarily machine-parsable?
Do you think we should switch to utf8 globally? That would require a
crazy patch (to update all doctests). We can't really have the
'doctest mode' output ASCII while ipython outputs utf8, as otherwise
writing new doctests may become *very* complicated.
Hmmmmm... To me switching to utf8 sounds tempting, though I expect
that there will be many headaches ahead that I don't see yet.
Also, while it is true that nobody may have complained about the utf8
banner, perhaps they just don't care enough to tell us.
Err.
Something important: a couple of months ago I was in touch with a Sage
user who happens to be a blind mathematician. He stopped using the
other softwares because his "text reading software" couldn't be used
on that output. He was litterally thanking the Lord on the phone when
I got him to compute the derivative of a polynomial in Sage, and that
he could actually *hear* the output, read by his software.
If we switched to utf8, we would close Sage to him.
:-/
Nathann
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