2008/12/16 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>:
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:47 AM, mabshoff wrote:
>
>> On Dec 16, 7:44 am, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> I posted a patch there that does some error checking at least.  It's
>>> minimal.  I hope somebody will referee it asap so it can go in
>>> sage-3.2.2.
>>>
>>> The real longterm solution to this problem is to totally rewrite the
>>> GMP interface so that it uses Cython and doesn't use expect at all.
>>> That's for another ticket.
>>
>> Thanks to Robert Miller that is already in Sage:
>>
>>     sage: import sage.libs.libecm
>>     sage: from sage.libs.libecm import ecmfactor
>>     sage: result = ecmfactor(999, 0.00)
>>     sage: result in [(True, 27), (True, 37), (True, 999)]
>>     True
>>     sage: result = ecmfactor(999, 0.00, verbose=True)
>>     Performing one curve with B1=0
>>     Found factor in step 1: ...
>>     sage: result in [(True, 27), (True, 37), (True, 999)]
>>     True
>
> Is there any reason we're still shipping the old interface?

Lack of documentation?

sage: import sage.libs.libecm
sage: from sage.libs.libecm import ecmfactor
sage: ecmfactor?
Type:           builtin_function_or_method
Base Class:     <type 'builtin_function_or_method'>
String Form:    <built-in function ecmfactor>
Namespace:      Interactive


sage: ecmfactor(100)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/john/.mozilla/firefox/t7csk8yc.default/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/john/sage-3.2.2.alpha1/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/libs/libecm.so
in sage.libs.libecm.ecmfactor (sage/libs/libecm.c:1485)()

TypeError: ecmfactor() takes at least 2 positional arguments (1 given)

John

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