On 10/17/07, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my suggestion is that the standard extension should not be .sage, but
> rather .sage.py so import foo.sage would import foo.sage.py. It will
> also help python IDEs (thanks for the emacs tweak btw). And i believe
> it is true to sage's nature.
That doesn't work because in Python
import foo.sage
means import the code defined in the file sage.py in the foo directory.
Second, it won't work because import is a builtin python command,
so I can't change it to behave differently.
> Then, import should preparse if the extension is .sage.py, not if it
> is just .py.
William
>
> On 17 oct, 11:14, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering how to have my scripts preparsed: now i know. And i
> > > need to tell emacs that a .sage file needs to be treated like a .py
> > > file...
> >
> > Put this in your .emacs file:
> >
> > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.sage\\'" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> >
> > > a problem with .sage files though is that the import command doesn't
> > > work with them (foo.sage is not found by either 'import foo' or
> > > 'import foo.sage'). I *know* there is the 'load' or the 'attach'
> > > command instead, but really i prefer import, because of what it does
> > > with namespaces: having 'foo.f()' is less likely to clash with f()...
> > > same with variables.
> >
> > I understand. It would indeed be god to have some sort of "preparse
> > then import" command. Any suggestions for how it would work (i.e.,
> > from the user's point of view)? Making
> > import foo
> > work if foo.sage is there isn't really an option, since Python directly
> > does the import, and won't know to look for foo.sage.
> >
> > William
>
>
> >
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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