[sage-support] Re: another missing worksheet problem

2008-02-15 Thread BFJ
I'm trying to figure this out still. Is there a file somewhere that records which worksheets are displayed in the notebook interface; somehing besides just the content of the directory $HOME/.sage/sage_notebook/worksheets/ ? -BFJ On Feb 12, 12:28 pm, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >

[sage-support] Re: another missing worksheet problem

2008-02-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hi, I don't really understand this myself, so someone else should add more, but I think that information is stored somehow in the nb.sobj file. I would like to know how to hack it so that a worksheet in the appropriate directory (re)appears. -M. Hampton On Feb 15, 12:57 pm, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECT

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread John Cremona
I agree. It would be different if Sage were centralised with a boss who could assign certain people the task of looking after newbies. Did you reply to User 1 trying to convince him/her to try again but to use sage-support? As Sage does actually provide amazingly good support )via this list for

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 15, 10:59 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. It would be different if Sage were centralised with a boss > who could assign certain people the task of looking after newbies. > > Did you reply to User 1 trying to convince him/her to try again but to > use sage-support

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread Simon King
Dear John, dear Ted, On Feb 15, 10:59 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree.  It would be different if Sage were centralised with a boss > who could assign certain people the task of looking after newbies. +1 I sometimes wondered whether i should better submit my questions to s

[sage-support] sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread Ted Kosan
Two users recently submitted these posts: User 1 (sent to sage-newbie): > I was considering investing in learning sage and use it in my work on > optimization algorithms. I now understand I have to expect > incompatibilities with some python packages, and no help from this > list. I'll stick to

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support and sage- devel should be enough. -M. Hampton On Feb 15, 4:14 pm, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear John, dear Ted, > > On Feb 15, 10:59 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree. It would be different if Sa

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support and sage- > devel should be enough. > I strongly agree. I would like us to have only sage-support and sage-devel, and close all the other lists. -- William --~--

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support and sage- > > devel should be enough. > > > > I strongly agree. I would like

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 2:58 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support an

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Harvey
On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:37 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I agree that two lists are better than four - sage-support and sage- >> devel should be enough. >> > > I strongly agree. I would like us to have only sage-support and

[sage-support] Why does one work and not the other?

2008-02-15 Thread wdbragg
import pylab as p x = p.arange(-100, 300, 10) y = abs(x) p.plot(x, y, 'go') p.savefig('plot.png') This works as expected. However, if I change the function from abs to cos... import pylab as p x = p.arange(-100, 300, 10) y = cos(x) p.plot(x, y, 'go') p.savefig('plot.png') This fails ... seems

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 3:19 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:08 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:58 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTE

[sage-support] Re: Why does one work and not the other?

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 1:35 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > import pylab as p > x = p.arange(-100, 300, 10) > y = abs(x) > p.plot(x, y, 'go') > p.savefig('plot.png') > > This works as expected. However, if I change the function from abs to > cos... > > import pylab as p > x = p.arange(-100, 3

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread mabshoff
> > > How exactly do you close a google group? > > I just changed the list settings so that only "managers can post", which is > just > you and me. That should be good enough. We should also edit the welcome messages for those two groups to point people to -support and -devel. While someone i

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:08 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:58 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 15, 2008 2:31 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:26 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > How exactly do you close a google group? > > > > I just changed the list settings so that only "managers can post", which > is just > > you and me. That should be good enough. > > We should also edit the

[sage-support] Re: Why does one work and not the other?

2008-02-15 Thread Georg
sage: import pylab as p sage: x = p.arange(-100, 300, 10) sage: type(x) as you can see x is an object of type 'numpy.ndarray', abs is a Python built-in method, which means that you can apply abs(x) to each object x for which a __abs__ method is defined, and so is obviously for type 'numpy.ndarra

[sage-support] diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will differentiate with respect to n times with respect to n." Should be something like: "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will differentiate n times with respect to

[sage-support] Re: Why does one work and not the other?

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 3:43 PM, Georg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sage: import pylab as p > sage: x = p.arange(-100, 300, 10) > sage: type(x) > > > as you can see x is an object of type 'numpy.ndarray', > abs is a Python built-in method, which means that you can apply abs(x) > to each object x for wh

[sage-support] Re: diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 4:36 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: > > "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will > differentiate with respect to n times with respect to n." > > Should be something like: > "If you supply a v

[sage-support] Re: diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2008 4:36 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: > > > > "If you supply a variable x followed by a number n, then it will > > differentiat

[sage-support] Re: diff() Docstring

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 5:00 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 15, 2008 4:36 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On SAGE Version 2.9.2, diff's Docstring is: > >

[sage-support] SAGE, VMware, Mac OS X

2008-02-15 Thread Hector Villafuerte
Hi, I've been quite happy using SAGE Mac OS X Binaries (on OS X 10.4). I also use SAGE on an Ubuntu Linux desktop. It's just that sometimes I miss some of SAGE's (original?) functionality while using the Mac, e.g. 'animate' needs 'convert'. So my question is: has somebody successfully used SAGE's

[sage-support] Re: SAGE, VMware, Mac OS X

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 5:21 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been quite happy using SAGE Mac OS X Binaries (on OS X 10.4). I > also use SAGE on an Ubuntu Linux desktop. It's just that sometimes I > miss some of SAGE's (original?) functionality while using the Mac, > e.g. 'animate'

[sage-support] Re: Sage Installation - Problem with untar-ing Linux Binaries

2008-02-15 Thread Kishore
The size of the tar ball is less than what you mentioned -rw--- 1 kishore pointcount 236711936 Feb 12 21:01 sage- sage-2.10.1-linux-debian64-intel-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz Nevertheless, I proceeded continuing and when I typed the command 'sage' , I got an error mentioning that "You must compile

[sage-support] Re: Sage Installation - Problem with untar-ing Linux Binaries

2008-02-15 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 16, 2:46 am, Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The size of the tar ball is less than what you mentioned > > -rw--- 1 kishore pointcount 236711936 Feb 12 21:01 sage- > sage-2.10.1-linux-debian64-intel-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz You are missing about 50 mb from the tarball, so you will ne

[sage-support] Extraction problem - Sage Windows bin

2008-02-15 Thread tangent
Hi I am having trouble decompressing sage-vmware-2.10.1.7z I have now downloaded it twice as I originally thought the file had been corrupted during the download. Using the 7z file manager, it returns an error message for each file in the compressed package. Using Winzip, the 7z file is not reco

[sage-support] Re: sage-newbie list and sage-support list

2008-02-15 Thread kcrisman
As a very minor note, for completeness http://www.sagemath.org/lists.html should be changed as well. > > > > > How exactly do you close a google group? Sounds like the recent closing a Facebook entry controversy... -kcrisman --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this

[sage-support] Extreme Newbie Development Questions

2008-02-15 Thread kcrisman
Unfortunately, I still am having a lot of trouble. If anyone can help a development n00b (I think my woes deserve this title), read on. Big hat tip to Robert, though, for linking to the very informative September 20, 2007 sage-devel discussion. I have tried following the instructions in that di

[sage-support] Re: Extreme Newbie Development Questions

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 8:27 PM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The bottom line is this: If William's goal is really to have *every* > user be a developer (or at least to contribute very minor > documentation corrections or tests, if that counts as developing), as > he's stated numerous times, an

[sage-support] Re: [sage-newbie] name 'plot3d' is not defined

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, We've decided that to increase the quality of our customer service, all discussion on sage-newbie should be moved to sage-support. I've disabled posting of new messages to sage-newbie. Please sign up for sage-support at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support Regarding your que

[sage-support] optional_packages() error

2008-02-15 Thread Ted Kosan
When I execute the optional_packages() function in a worksheet, I receive the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/sage-2.10-debian32-i686-Linux/local/bin/sage-list-packages", line 20, in os.makedirs("%s/tmp"%SAGE_ROOT) File "/opt/sage-2.10-debian32-i686-Li

[sage-support] Re: optional_packages() error

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 10:16 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I execute the optional_packages() function in a worksheet, I > receive the following error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/opt/sage-2.10-debian32-i686-Linux/local/bin/sage-list-packages", > line 20, i

[sage-support] Re: name 'plot3d' is not defined

2008-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello. Sage 2.9.1. Using Ubuntu 7.04 on an Intel core 2 duo. Need to upgrade? I think it might be be useful if (in the reference manual) the version of sage in which the command is available was included. Thank you very much. On Feb 16, 6:57 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,

[sage-support] Re: name 'plot3d' is not defined

2008-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Feb 15, 2008 11:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > Sage 2.9.1. Using Ubuntu 7.04 on an Intel core 2 duo. Need to upgrade? Yes. We wrote the 3d graphics for Sage after 2.9.1 was released. > I think it might be be useful if (in the reference manual) the version