Re: [sage-support] Re: sage -t has changed recently ?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Starx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But what if I don't want to add "from ... import *" at the beginning of each
>> docstring ?
>
> I had this issue recently.  William informed me that the philosophy of
> doctests is that a user should be able to take anything they see in a
> doctest and type it directly into sage with no additional commands.
> So if your file has to be loaded or imported or whatever in order to
> make those commands run then that load/import should be present in the
> doctests, that way any user reading those doctests will know that they
> need to import your file before they can use it.

I think this is a very defendible position too.  Isn't it frustrating
when you look at an example, and it has all kinds of hidden
assumptions, so copy/paste of it doesn't "just work".  For example, in
numpy docs, one often sees the implicit assumption that one did
"import numpy as np" or "from numpy import *".

 -- William

>
> If you want to make it so that you don't have to import your file you
> can put it somewhere in the sage directory and then add an entry for
> it in the all.py file that resides in the same folder as your file.
>
> -Jim
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>>  On 21 Feb., 14:24, Laurent<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Is it normal ? With older versions of sage the same docstring was
>>>>> working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Really? I doubt it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, really ;)
>> Well, in fact I did not tested THAT example on Sage 4.7, but my usual
>> programs had doctrings that were working on 4.7 and that are no more
>> working. I just created that example now in order to individuate the problem
>> ... could be something else.
>>
>> So, pragmatically, how can I use doctests with sage ?
>> If I add "from sagess import *" as first line of my docstring, then it works
>> provided my file is in PYTHONPATH.
>>
>> But what if I don't want to add "from ... import *" at the beginning of each
>> docstring ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Laurent
>>
>>
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