Opened 9 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#15246 closed enhancement (fixed)

add xkcd function to sage

Reported by: mderickx Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: user interface Keywords:
Cc: Merged in:
Authors: Maarten Derickx, André Apitzsch Reviewers: Travis Scrimshaw
Report Upstream: N/A Work issues:
Branch: dfc8753 (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) Commit:
Dependencies: Stopgaps:

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Description

Sage already has an xgcd function but no xkcd function. We should really change that.

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15246-xkcd.patch​ (2.4 KB) - added by mderickx 9 years ago.

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Change History (32)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by mderickx

  • Component changed from number fields to number theory
  • Status changed from new to needs_review

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by aapitzsch

  • Status changed from needs_review to needs_work

Use a python 3 compatible syntax to raise errors 

raise RuntimeError("Could not obtain comic data from %s . Maybe you should enable time travel!"%url)

Changed 9 years ago by mderickx

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by mderickx

  • Status changed from needs_work to needs_review

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by mderickx

Ok, I changed the patch according to your comment.

comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by vbraun_spam

  • Milestone changed from sage-6.0 to sage-6.1

comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by chapoton

  • Milestone changed from sage-6.1 to sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
  • Reviewers set to Frédéric Chapoton
  • Status changed from needs_review to positive_review

Useless. Sage is not the place for that.

comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by nbruin

  • Status changed from positive_review to needs_review

Reassigning a ticket to "won't fix" and giving the positive review by the same person is bad form. I happen to think it's a fun easter egg. Xkcd often does have relevant and highly quotable mathematics-related cartoons.

comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by chapoton

Ok.

Sorry for misbehaving.

I still think that this has nothing to do here, and that kids should go and play elsewhere.

comment:9 Changed 8 years ago by chapoton

  • Reviewers Frédéric Chapoton deleted

comment:10 follow-up: Changed 8 years ago by kedlaya

I happen to think there is a valid reason to insert this easter egg: it might earn Sage a mention in a future xkcd comic, which would be excellent marketing. I can even imagine a "Droste effect" where one of the characters uses Sage, mistypes the xgcd command and sees... him/herself.

My one complaint is the use of an NSFW doctest. Surely we can be less immature than that! (This reminds me of the discovery of "B00B135" in some shipped Microsoft code. Not helpful.)

comment:11 in reply to: ↑ 10 Changed 8 years ago by kcrisman

I happen to think there is a valid reason to insert this easter egg: it might earn Sage a mention in a future xkcd comic, which would be excellent marketing. I can even imagine a "Droste effect" where one of the characters uses Sage, mistypes the xgcd command and sees... him/herself.

Given that the author has already been interviewed in Math Horizons, I think this is a definite possibility.

My one complaint is the use of an NSFW doctest. Surely we can be less immature than that! (This reminds me of the discovery of "B00B135" in some shipped Microsoft code. Not helpful.)

Hmm, very good point. Although the specific comic itself is probably one of the greatest ones out there for "pure" math types (though I was amazed at the haters out there for this one). Maybe we can use the ... in the title attribute of the img link? Or do you have a different comic suggestion? I looked a few just now but the rest of the better math-specific ones are (of course) somewhat more sub-discipline specific.

comment:12 Changed 8 years ago by kcrisman

  • Component changed from number theory to user interface
  • Priority changed from major to minor

However, let's move it to the correct component :)

comment:13 Changed 8 years ago by mderickx

So this ticket seems that this ticket is getting some attention again. I would like to adres the comments above so that this ticket can get a positive review and get merged.

However before this the question: should this ticket be "won't fix" or should it be given a mile stone again in order to get merged still has to be settled. Right now there only seems to be one person that thinks that this should be "won't fix". So I would say we should give it a mile stone again. But it doesn't feel like good behavior to do that myself as I am the author of this ticket.

comment:14 Changed 8 years ago by kedlaya

  • Milestone changed from sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix to sage-6.1

Sorry, I had meant to change the milestone back but I forgot.

comment:15 Changed 8 years ago by vbraun_spam

  • Milestone changed from sage-6.1 to sage-6.2

comment:16 Changed 8 years ago by vbraun_spam

  • Milestone changed from sage-6.2 to sage-6.3

comment:17 Changed 8 years ago by aapitzsch

  • Authors set to Maarten Derickx, André Apitzsch
  • Branch set to u/aapitzsch/ticket/15246
  • Commit set to 9743e619e17a8ff40682261f9908b5b5d1e4f2dd

comment:18 Changed 8 years ago by jdemeyer

  • Status changed from needs_review to needs_work
  1. Please remove the alt text as requested by Kedlaya.
  1. Never use a bare except:, always use except Exception: or even better, catch a specific exception.
  1. Can you avoid the finally: file.close() using a with: statement?

comment:19 Changed 8 years ago by kedlaya

On further reflection, I suppose we should still doctest alt text. Maybe use comic 353 (Python) for that instead?

comment:20 Changed 8 years ago by git

  • Commit changed from 9743e619e17a8ff40682261f9908b5b5d1e4f2dd to 9f39fa108ec6d0bda1db8265d93563ee8fdb72a2

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

​b78a7aaMerge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into xkcd
​9f39fa1reviewer comments

comment:21 Changed 8 years ago by aapitzsch

  • Status changed from needs_work to needs_review

comment:22 follow-up: Changed 8 years ago by nbruin

Rebase perhaps? Given that the original doctest was considered unprofessional, perhaps we do not want it to become part of the history of sage?

comment:23 in reply to: ↑ 22 Changed 8 years ago by aapitzsch

  • Branch changed from u/aapitzsch/ticket/15246 to u/aapitzsch/ticket/15246_xkcd
  • Commit changed from 9f39fa108ec6d0bda1db8265d93563ee8fdb72a2 to b7cd4584da0fbe3436a2e0fd2dc396182353affa

Replying to nbruin:

Rebase perhaps? Given that the original doctest was considered unprofessional, perhaps we do not want it to become part of the history of sage?

Done.

comment:24 Changed 8 years ago by jdemeyer

  • Branch changed from u/aapitzsch/ticket/15246_xkcd to u/jdemeyer/ticket/15246
  • Created changed from 10/01/13 13:39:27 to 10/01/13 13:39:27
  • Modified changed from 08/03/14 19:56:17 to 08/03/14 19:56:17

comment:25 Changed 8 years ago by jdemeyer

  • Commit changed from b7cd4584da0fbe3436a2e0fd2dc396182353affa to dfc8753829cc5fcf256a6698b94206fb50de797e

New commits:

​dfc8753Use xkcd comic number from json data

comment:26 Changed 8 years ago by vbraun_spam

  • Milestone changed from sage-6.3 to sage-6.4

comment:27 Changed 8 years ago by tscrim

  • Reviewers set to Travis Scrimshaw
  • Status changed from needs_review to positive_review

LGTM (unless it's easy to open a web browser only in the command line a la import antigravity).

comment:28 Changed 8 years ago by vbraun

  • Branch changed from u/jdemeyer/ticket/15246 to dfc8753829cc5fcf256a6698b94206fb50de797e
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from positive_review to closed

comment:29 Changed 8 years ago by ncohen

  • Commit dfc8753829cc5fcf256a6698b94206fb50de797e deleted

AT LAST !

Nathann

comment:30 Changed 8 years ago by ncohen

HMmmm... Looks like sending this message erased the "commit" field, but I can't set it back O_o

Nathann

comment:31 Changed 5 years ago by kcrisman

See #23348 as a followup.

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