I wanted to pass functions as arguments, so your example solved my problem,
thank you! On Jul 18, 5:52 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:04 , aniura wrote: > > > I have no experience in sage, I began to use it two days ago because I > > need arbitrary precision arithmetic and Octave is not so god for > > that. > > There are a number of good Python tutorials and other doc available. > Check the site > <http://www.python.org> > (I can't tell whether you have Python experience; Python is the > implementation language for most of Sage). > > > I wanted to write a script where I evaluate a function which is also > > written in a script. this can be done in Octave , f. ex. by using > > "feval", but I have not found anything similar in sage. could anybody > > give some suggestion? > > I'm not sure what you want from your description. However: > > sage: def foo(x): > ...: return bar(x) > ...: > sage: def bar(y): > ....: return y*y > ....: > sage: foo(10) > 100 > > Is this what you mean? 'foo' and 'bar' can be defined in different > files, as long as you have both files loaded when you call foo(). You > can also pass functions as arguments: > > sage: def foo(x, f): > ....: return f(x) > ....: > sage: def bar(y): > ....: return y*y > ....: > sage: foo(10, bar) > 100 > > Does this help? If not, please clarify; we're happy to help. > > Justin > > -- > They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes, > it doesn't work out that way. > - Casey Stengel > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
