Thanks, that sounds a bit too difficult for me though so I'll just stick to writing in PyCharm and try to execute my Sage files via the Sage shell.
But out of curiosity, am I the only one wanting to write scripts in Sage? Or are there other people using editors in the same way? On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 5:42:50 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:37 PM, PHPirate <holland...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hm, it is at least worth a try (just saw your message on GH) Okay I can > > understand if Sage has no syntax highlighting in any IDE on Windows, but > as > > the situation is now for me, is that there is no IDE in which you can > type > > Sage and then hit 'run' and then get Sage output. Now I think I could > write > > Sage in Notepad and then execute a Sage file via the Sage shell but I'm > > looking to shortcut that a bit (my expectations are quite lower now I > know > > that Sage doesn't have a standard editor which everyone uses). > > > > But is it a bad idea to write Sage scripts? Did I misunderstand > something, > > and should I use the console only? > > It's not at all a bad idea; it's just that if you want correct syntax > highlighting for it you'll have to use an editor for which there is > syntax highlighting support for Sage, or add it yourself to your > editor of choice. Certainly there's no reason to use notepad > regardless. It's just that different editors have different means of > providing syntax highlighting for new languages (where Sage's syntax > is just a small superset over pure Python syntax). > > More importantly, the default Python interpreter also isn't going to > know how to execute a Sage script, though it seems that in PyCharm > it's probably possible to configure the necessary options to pre-load > the Sage syntax parser and then pass it a .sage script, but I haven't > tried it yet. > > > On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 2:06:09 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote: > >> > >> That sounds a bit bogus to me. I've never used PyCharm before and > don't > >> know how it works, but I suspect it could be made to work with Cygwin's > >> Python. It's pretty low-priority for me though. I don't see how using > >> PyCharm to edit sage source code would be useful--it won't even do > syntax > >> highlighting properly, unless I'm missing something. > >> > >> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2:01:08 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik > wrote: > >>> > >>> I've already expalined here > >>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/12 that PyCharm > doesn't > >>> support Cygwin Python, > >>> and thus it's not going to be trivial to fix. The reason that we must > use > >>> Cygwin Python is that a number of essential Sage components (i.e. > Python > >>> extensions you need) e.g. GAP, won't work natively on Windows, as they > use > >>> fork() and other Unix/Posix specific system functions. > >>> > >>> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 12:19:56 PM UTC, PHPirate wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, it sounds reasonable. But do you mean the Jupyter notebook > >>>> included with Sage, which you can start with > >>>> sage --notebook ipython > >>>> from the Sage shell? I do not like notebooks such as this one and > >>>> Mathematica because they do not go well with a VCS. Is it then > possible to > >>>> use this Jupyter to edit and run Sage files saved in a better way, > like > >>>> python files? > > > > -- > > 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
