| 1 | initial version |
A partial answer: in Sage 4.7.0, the above attempt (2) works. Thus it is indeed a bug brought in from either 4.7.1 or 4.7.2. I also tried 4.8 alpha 5, the bug is not fixed --looking forward to a fix.
Copyright Sage, 2010. Some rights reserved under creative commons license. Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.