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Can I import M2 matrices into sage?

asked 2016-02-02 05:26:18 +0100

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I have thousands of matrices I computed in Macaulay2. They are scattered throughout sub-directories of ~/matrices/ one example of one of these matrices is

$ cat ~/matrices/foo/001-matrix

map((ZZ)^9,(ZZ)^7,{{1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, -1}, {1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}})

I would like to write a script to convert each of these matrices into a format that sage can read. It seems like

sage: A = macaulay2(value get "~/matrices/foo/001-matrix")

should work but this returns the error invalid syntax. Is it possible to perform my desired conversions?

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answered 2016-02-02 12:14:14 +0100

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I don't know anything about macaulay and don't have it installed, but I suggest you try to make the content of your command be a string, or you will keep hitting this syntax error. What about

 sage: A = macaulay2('value get "~/matrices/foo/001-matrix"')

Does it give what you want ?

Nathann

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Yes thank you!

done_with_fish gravatar imagedone_with_fish ( 2016-02-02 19:07:26 +0100 )edit

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