[sage-support] Re: exponentiation bug?

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Hansen
On Jan 18, 2008 12:24 PM, Georg Grafendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, thanks, so sage-python just refers to the "sage-version" of python > instead of the systems own python version and nothing else !? Correct. --Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this

[sage-support] Re: exponentiation bug?

2008-01-18 Thread Georg Grafendorfer
OK, thanks, so sage-python just refers to the "sage-version" of python instead of the systems own python version and nothing else !? Georg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send e

[sage-support] Re: exponentiation bug?

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, When you call, ./example.sage, it is being run by the Python interpreter with no preparsing done at all. Thus, 2^3 corresponds is interpreted as Python interprets it (not exponentiation). When you do "load example.sage", then it is preparsed by Sage, and your '^' gets changed to a "**" i