[sage-devel] Re: Manifold tickets ready for review

2015-10-19 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Le vendredi 16 octobre 2015 00:54:04 UTC+2, Eric Gourgoulhon a écrit : > > > All the objects are implemented within Sage's category framework, following > the parent/element scheme. The category for manifolds is Sets() for the > moment, but this should be changed to Manifolds() as soon as #18175

[sage-devel] suggestions for entering and displaying permutations

2015-10-19 Thread Pierre
Hi, I wanted to raise a few minor issues with permutations in Sage, which have been annoying me (and presumably others) for a long time now. I propose a number of fixes below. (1) It is a pain to enter permutations in cycle notation. sage: Permutation("(1,2,3)(4,5)") hurts my eyes (it just to

[sage-devel] Re: suggestions for entering and displaying permutations

2015-10-19 Thread Pierre
PS I have no idea why there are so many blank lines in my post ? On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 12:12:52 PM UTC+2, Pierre wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to raise a few minor issues with permutations in Sage, which have > been annoying me (and presumably others) for a long time now. I propose a

[sage-devel] Re: suggestions for entering and displaying permutations

2015-10-19 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
I'm not going to deal with parsing through multiple arguments from the user in addition to what we currently have. It just is not worth it. As for the rest: sage: P = Permutation(((1,2,3),(4,5))) sage: P [2, 3, 1, 5, 4] sage: P.parent() Standard permutations of 5 sage: Permutations.global_option

[sage-devel] Re: suggestions for entering and displaying permutations

2015-10-19 Thread Pierre
Thanks a lot for the global options ! On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:01:29 PM UTC+2, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > I'm not going to deal with parsing through multiple arguments from the > user in addition to what we currently have. It just is not worth it. As for > the rest: > > sage: P = Permut