[sage-support] Re: showing the status of a computation without generating long output

2009-03-03 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Hamish hamish.ivey@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 25, 1:52 pm, Marco Streng marco.str...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a long computation in Sage and I'd like to be able to print some status information to the screen, such as the number of database entries that I

[sage-support] Re: showing the status of a computation without generating long output

2009-03-02 Thread Hamish
On Feb 25, 1:52 pm, Marco Streng marco.str...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a long computation in Sage and I'd like to be able to print some status information to the screen, such as the number of database entries that I have tested, or the total time spent on different parts of an algorithm.

[sage-support] Re: showing the status of a computation without generating long output

2009-02-25 Thread Simon King
Hi Marco, On Feb 25, 1:52 pm, Marco Streng marco.str...@gmail.com wrote: If I use the print command, then such information will accumulate and make it impossible to scroll back to the rest of my terminal session, or if I use a notebook, it makes the notebook very untidy and long. Sorry that

[sage-support] Re: showing the status of a computation without generating long output

2009-02-25 Thread Stephen Hartke
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Marco Streng marco.str...@gmail.comwrote: I'm doing a long computation in Sage and I'd like to be able to print some status information to the screen, such as the number of database entries that I have tested, or the total time spent on different parts of an

[sage-support] Re: showing the status of a computation without generating long output

2009-02-25 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Stephen Hartke har...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Marco Streng marco.str...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a long computation in Sage and I'd like to be able to print some status information to the screen, such as the number of database