On 18 May 2009, at 16:49, Franco Saliola wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Kevin Horton <khorto...@rogers.com> > wrote: >> >> On 18 May 2009, at 15:10, William Stein wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Horton >>> <khorto...@rogers.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> A recent discussion of ways to find help pointed out a very useful >>>> construct: >>>> >>>> *word*? at the sage command line will provide a list of commands >>>> that >>>> include the letters "word". E.g. >>>> >>>> sage: *word*? >>>> Subwords >>>> word_problem >>>> words >>>> >>>> I note that this construct does not work in a notebook - the >>>> results >>>> is "No object '' currently defined.". Is this the intended >>>> behaviour, >>>> or is it a bug? >>> >>> It is a NotImplementedError. >> >> Fascinating. I had naively assumed that anything that wasn't >> recognized as a notebook-specific construct would simply be passed to >> sage for it to handle. Obviously the notebook is a lot more >> complicated than I had realized. Am I to infer that every new >> command >> that is added to sage also needs to be implemented in the notebook? > > No. I think that your confusion lies in the fact that you are > thinking of > the command line as Sage. It is better to think of it as an > interface to > Sage. It is a customized version of the IPython (Interactive Python) > shell. > The command you mention is specific to the command line 'interface'. > There > is, as of yet, no equivalent of this command defined for the notebook > interface. > > Hope this helps.
Yes, that is very helpful. Thank you. There are so many layers to the onion that I had lost track of which one I was dealing with. This ability to interpret *word* probably comes from ipython, but ipython is bypassed by the notebook. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
