On Monday, November 26, 2012 2:07:34 PM UTC, john_perry_usm wrote:
> Is it a good idea to patch the matplotlib package with a test of whether
> an object is a sage object?
Definitely not!
If possible, matplotlib should rely on duck-typing:
try:
alpha = float(obj)
except ValueError:
<here we know that obj is not a float>
> If not, the solution is probably to patch sage's commands that create
> graphics, to change RealLiteral's to float's.
>
That should be fixed as well. Sage shouldn't feed its own floating point
classes to 3rd-party libraries, they certainly aren't doctested with
extended precision floating point numbers.
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