Using GAP in Sage and reusing the results

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I need to run some program in GAP and use the output in another program in Sage.

I tried running gap_console() and then running "a := 1;" in GAP.

After exiting that console and going gack to Sage, my calculations were lost.

When I asked the value of "a" in Sage, I got:

NameError: name "a" is not defined.

Is there any command in Sage to solve this problem?

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To use GAP within Sage and reuse its results in the Sage session, use libgap.

Example:

sage: a = libgap(1)
sage: a
1
sage: parent(a)
C library interface to GAP

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