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Back-quotes in Sage or Python

asked 2011-10-27 16:53:34 +0100

jack gravatar image

I have been cutting and pasting some of the examples in a pdf of William's new book, Sage for power users. All the single quotes paste as back-quotes (`) rather than single quotes ('). Is there some way to tell Sage (or Python) that these are equivalent?

I don't know if the back-quotes are intentional or an artifact of my pdf viewer.

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answered 2011-10-27 22:24:13 +0100

Jason Grout gravatar image

It's a problem with the Sage book. Here is a change that fixes the problem: http://code.google.com/r/jasongrout-s...

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From what I can tell, this is a correction to the LaTeX version of the document, not the pdf version. I believe I only have access to the pdf version.

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answered 2011-10-27 19:47:55 +0100

Mike Hansen gravatar image

I don't know if this is an issue with the PDF or your viewer, but one hackish way to do it is the following:

sage: def new_preparse(*args, **kwds):
....:     return preparse(*args, **kwds).replace('`', "'")
....: 
sage: sage.misc.preparser.preparse = new_preparse

Then you can do things like:

sage: print `cat`
cat

Note that this just does a "blind" replacement so something like

sage: print '`'

won't work correctly.

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