Maxima.console allows for direct communication between user and maxima, whereas maxima.interact still filters input and output. Compare :
sage: maxima.console() ;;; Loading #P"/home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/ecl/sb-bsd-sockets.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/ecl/sockets.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/ecl/defsystem.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas" Maxima 5.29.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp ECL 12.12.1 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) display2d:false; (%o1) false (%i2) declare(x,real,t,real,m,real,s,real) $ assume(s>0) $ (%i4) define(foo(x,m,s),subst((x-m)/s,x,diff(1/(1+%e^-x),x))); (%o4) foo(x,m,s):=%e^-((x-m)/s)/(%e^-((x-m)/s)+1)^2 (%i5) integrate(foo(x,m,s),x,minf,inf); (%o5) s (%i6) integrate(foo(x,m,s)/s,x,minf,inf); (%o6) 1 (%i7) integrate(x*foo(x,m,s)/s,x,minf,inf); Is 1/s an integer? n; ;;; This is an answer typed in the terminal Is 2*m/s an integer? n; ;;; Ditto Is m/s an integer? n; ;;; Ditto (%o7) m (%i8) quit(); with : sage: maxima.interact() --> Switching to Maxima <-- maxima: declare(x,real,t,real,m,real,s,real); done maxima: assume(s>0); [s>0] maxima: define(foo(x,m,s),subst((x-m)/s,x,diff(1/(1+%e^-x),x))); foo(x,m,s):=%e^-((x-m)/s)/(%e^-((x-m)/s)+1)^2 maxima: integrate(foo(x,m,s),x,minf,inf); s maxima: integrate(foo(x,m,s)/s,x,minf,inf); 1 maxima: integrate(x*foo(x,m,s)/s,x,minf,inf); --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/prefilter.pyc in prefilter_lines(self, lines, continue_prompt) 358 for lnum, line in enumerate(llines) ]) 359 else: --> 360 out = self.prefilter_line(llines[0], continue_prompt) 361 362 return out /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/prefilter.pyc in prefilter_line(self, line, continue_prompt) 314 # At this point, we invoke our transformers. 315 if not continue_prompt or (continue_prompt and self.multi_line_specials): --> 316 line = self.transform_line(line, continue_prompt) 317 318 # Now we compute line_info for the checkers and handlers /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/prefilter.pyc in transform_line(self, line, continue_prompt) 288 for transformer in self.transformers: 289 if transformer.enabled: --> 290 line = transformer.transform(line, continue_prompt) 291 return line 292 /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/misc/interpreter.pyc in transform(self, line, continue_prompt) 544 line = 'InputForm[%s]'%line 545 --> 546 t = self.shell.interface.eval(line) 547 548 #Once we've evaluated the lines, we can clear the queue /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc in eval(self, code, strip, synchronize, locals, allow_use_file, split_lines, **kwds) 1206 elif split_lines: 1207 return '\n'.join([self._eval_line(L, allow_use_file=allow_use_file, **kwds) -> 1208 for L in code.split('\n') if L != '']) 1209 else: 1210 return self._eval_line(code, allow_use_file=allow_use_file, **kwds) /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/maxima.pyc in _eval_line(self, line, allow_use_file, wait_for_prompt, reformat, error_check, restart_if_needed) 791 return out 792 --> 793 self._expect_expr() 794 assert len(self._before())==0, 'Maxima expect interface is confused!' 795 /home/charpent/sage-5.10/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/maxima.pyc in _expect_expr(self, expr, timeout) 695 self._sendline(";") 696 self._expect_expr() --> 697 raise ValueError, msg 698 except KeyboardInterrupt, msg: 699 #print self._expect.before ValueError: Computation failed since Maxima requested additional constraints (try the command "maxima.assume('/s>0')" before integral or limit evaluation, for example): Is 1/s an integer? maxima: ;;; Here, I type Ctrl-D --> Exiting back to Sage <-- In the maxima.interact() call, sage "sees" the question from maxima, and acts accordingly (here, suggests an assumption that cannot be made...). Is that the intended effect of maxima.interact ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
