Problem when reading file

thelpt234
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Hi,

I am new to sage and there is a simple thing that does not work. I am working in GAP using the Sage notebook. I uploaded a file, called test.txt. Now, I want to run it into my worksheet. I select GAP, then run

Read("DATA+'test.txt'"); m1:=[[E(3),0],[0,E(3)^2]]; m:=Group(m1); Supfast(m,[m1]);

Where Supfast is a function defined in test.txt. I know that the program works because it works when I just copy/paste the code in test.txt. But it does not work when I want to read the file. What is the problem? Thanks in advance!

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answered 10 years ago

Dima
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Indeed, GAP is not Python, and '+' does not work for concatenating strings in GAP. It has a function that does concatenation:

gap> Concatenation("bla","foo");

"blafoo"

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Good to know! But would it recognize DATA in any case?

kcrisman ( 10 years ago )

if DATA was set to something like "mydir/" then yes...

Dima ( 10 years ago )

Hmm, but DATAis set in the notebook already - in Python. How would GAP find it? (I mean, what syntax?)

kcrisman ( 10 years ago )

You can execute arbitrary GAP commands from Sage by using gap.eval(). (or libgap.eval(), which would interact with a different GAP process).

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answered 10 years ago

kcrisman
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Hmm, I bet that only Sage and Python know about the DATA variable in the notebook. A workaround is to simply print out the value of DATA in a Sage cell and then cut and paste that.

I tried it, but then ran into a problem of Gap in the notebook not taking very long lines!

Read("/home//notebook/sage_notebook.sagenb/home/kcrisman/5/data/test.txt");
RuntimeError: Gap produced error output
Syntax error: ; expected in ... test.txt line 2

That one I recall but I can't remember if there was a workaround.

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