Why are Notebook docs different from CLI docs? What is Namespace "Interactive"?

asked 2010-09-10 00:07:04 +0200

ccanonc
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updated 2011-04-28 16:04:27 +0200

Kelvin Li
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The sage terminal returns the following, but the notebook interface omits the "Base Class", "String Form", "Namespace", and "Length":

sage: NaN?
Type: Expression
Base Class: type 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression'
String Form: NaN
Namespace: Interactive
Length: 0
File: /SAGE_DIR/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/categories/commutative_rings.py
Definition: NaN(self, *args, **kwds)
Docstring:
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

answered 2010-09-10 02:03:42 +0200

John Palmieri

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The notebook docs are different from the CLI docs because they're prepared differently. The command-line docs are prepared using code from the file devel/sage/sage/misc/sagedoc.py, which is then fed into ipython, and I think ipython adds the extra fields "Base Class", etc. The notebook docs are prepared using similar code, plus code from the notebook: see local/lib/python/site-packages/sagenb-.../sagenb/misc/support.py. This takes care of the nice formatting, the color, etc. It doesn't use ipython, though, so those fields are missing.

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It would be nice if they were consistent as far as content. The ipython evaluation is more informative.

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