Re: [sage-devel] Development suggestion

2017-12-06 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:09 PM, David Cousens wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone considered making the menu section of the sage Web interface non > scrolling and only making the worksheet cell part of the interface > scrollable. What is " the sage Web interface"? > I find

[sage-devel] Development suggestion

2017-12-06 Thread David Cousens
Hi Has anyone considered making the menu section of the sage Web interface non scrolling and only making the worksheet cell part of the interface scrollable. I find myself often scrolling back through a large page to reach the menu and then having to scroll back to where I was in the

Re: [sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Kwankyu Lee
> > Users should be able to run the EXAMPLES and see what we say they'll see. > +1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/06/2017 09:49 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > > Did anyone ever think up a better solution to this? > Whatever you do, you wind up with a big pile of dict output in the middle of your test case. So (where possible) you might as well use that space to define a new dict containing the expected

Re: [sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Maarten Derickx
I strongly dislike the idea making the doctesting framework more complicated by parsing the output like this. I think this should only be done as a last resort, since it makes the doctesting framework itself more error prone, and if implemented incorrectly might even silently let real error

Re: [sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2017-12-06 15:49, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> I think this question has come up before, but I don't know that >> there's been a really satisfactory solution. >> >> Many of the doctests have dicts as their output (or

Re: [sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2017-12-06 15:49, Erik Bray wrote: I think this question has come up before, but I don't know that there's been a really satisfactory solution. Many of the doctests have dicts as their output (or worse, contained embedded in their output). This can fail from time to time since dict element

[sage-devel] dicts in doctests

2017-12-06 Thread Erik Bray
I think this question has come up before, but I don't know that there's been a really satisfactory solution. Many of the doctests have dicts as their output (or worse, contained embedded in their output). This can fail from time to time since dict element order is not guaranteed. This has been

[sage-devel] Re: Failure in building Sage (problem with python2-2.7.14)

2017-12-06 Thread Tristan Vaccon
Dear all, Thank you very much for your answers. I can now understand that I was building incrementally, but I do not understand what was the issue. Finally, after many attempts, what was successful was: >sudo make distclean and then >make build I am not sure why the sudo was necessary, but

[sage-devel] Re: Issues installing the optional "libhomfly" package

2017-12-06 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Now I believe that we have a full fix for this: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24015 (so you could install it and use it now, at your own risk :-)) some C language routines had to be fixed: https://github.com/miguelmarco/libhomfly/pull/8 https://github.com/miguelmarco/libhomfly/pull/11 On