Inconsistency in polynomial ring creation.

[hivert]

Hi sage developers,

I need to play with polynomials on various kind of coefficients. So I tried the following:

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| Sage Version 4.1.1, Release Date: 2009-08-14                       |
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Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: combinat
sage: R=QQ[x]
sage: R(1+x)
x + 1
sage: R=ZZ[x]
sage: R(1+x)
x + 1
sage: R=RealField(200)[x]
sage: R(1+x)
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
[...]
TypeError: x is not a variable of Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Real Field with 200 bits of precision

As mvngu pointed out on irc: the following works

sage: R.<x> = RealField(20)["x"]
sage: R(1 + x)
1.0000*x + 1.0000

But this is not very beautiful and worse it is very inconsistent... At least the error message should be more understandable...

What should we do about it ?

Cheers,

Florent

[mhansen]

This is fixed by the patches at #7007 and #5639.

[mhansen]

Err, it's a duplicate of #5755 which has been fixed.