Does the .faces function in the polytope package work?
$ sage
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| Sage Version 4.7, Release Date: 2011-05-23 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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sage: P = polytopes.cross_polytope(3)
sage: P.vertices()
[[0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0], [1, 0, 0], [0, 0, -1], [0, -1, 0], [-1, 0, 0]]
sage: P.faces(3)
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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/barry/<ipython console> in <module>()
AttributeError: 'Polyhedron' object has no attribute 'faces'
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