There are comments in the code about that, do they not answer your question?
On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2:22:23 PM UTC+1, Simon King wrote: > > Hi! > > Trying to create a pexpect interface to Polymake, I came accross the > following problem: > > In sage.interfaces.expect.Expect._start, there are two environment > variables that are removed before spawning: 'TERM' and 'COLUMNS'. > > Why is that? > > The problem is that Polymake won't start unless TERM is defined. > > I guess it would be an acceptable solution to provided Expect._start > with an option to keep 'TERM', wouldn't it? > > Best regards, > Simon > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
