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In the first case, your R is of type

sage: type(R)
<type 'sage.rings.polynomial.multi_polynomial_libsingular.MPolynomialRing_libsingular'>


In the second case,

sage: type(R)
<class 'sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_ring.PolynomialRing_field_with_category'>


Unfortunately, those univariate polynomial rings to not offer the .cover() method.

I agree that univariate polynomials should inherit from features of multivariate polynomials, but this is currently not the case.

Here is a tricky workaround: define your univariate polynomial ring as a multivariate polynomial ring with one variable !

sage: R.<T>=PolynomialRing(QQ, 1) ; R
Multivariate Polynomial Ring in T over Rational Field
sage: Q=R.quo((T^2))
sage: pi=Q.cover()
sage: pi(T)
Tbar


In the first case, your R is of type

sage: type(R)
<type 'sage.rings.polynomial.multi_polynomial_libsingular.MPolynomialRing_libsingular'>


In the second case,

sage: type(R)
<class 'sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_ring.PolynomialRing_field_with_category'>


Unfortunately, those univariate polynomial rings to do not offer the .cover() method.

I agree that univariate polynomials should inherit from features of multivariate polynomials, but this is currently not the case.

Here is a tricky workaround: define your univariate polynomial ring as a multivariate polynomial ring with one variable !

sage: R.<T>=PolynomialRing(QQ, 1) ; R
Multivariate Polynomial Ring in T over Rational Field
sage: Q=R.quo((T^2))
sage: pi=Q.cover()
sage: pi(T)
Tbar