Thanks to you both. It is a relief to know there is a solution. However, ...
I just pressed Ctrl-c and "^C" appeared. I pressed enter but I still didn't return to the "sage:" command prompt. In my ignorance I even typed out "ctrl-c" but the black block is still flashing... In case it wasn't transparent, I'm a newbie! On Sep 13, 8:41 pm, Alastair Irving <alastair.irv...@sjc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 13/09/2010 20:01, Nick wrote: > > > Hello! > > > I have a computation running in Sage. It is a search of more or less > > the following form: > > > Let S be an empty set. > > For i in some interval: > > Check some property for i > > If i satisfies the property: > > add i to the set S. > > > I now realise I should have said "print i" rather than "add i to the > > set S". Originally I thought it was a good idea because it was easy > > to manipulate the output once the search had been completed if it was > > in a set. However, now that the search has yet to conclude after a > > week or so I wonder if there is a simple way to check what is > > currently in S? > > > Is there any way to obtain the set S while the process continues to > > run? I'd even be interested to learn if there is a way to terminate > > the process and check what values of i have gathered in S up until > > termination. Any ideas? Or is it a lose cause? > > Hi > > It depends on precisely what form your code takes. If you're running > the loop at the top level with S as a global variable then you should be > able to do ctrl-c to terminate the computation and then look at S or any > other global variable. If your computations happening inside a function > call then I don't know of any way round it. > > HTH > > Alastair > > > > > Thanks very much. -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
