Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 2 years ago
#9048 new defect
inconsistencies between the terminal version and the notebook
Reported by: | zimmerma | Owned by: | jason, was |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-wishlist |
Component: | notebook | Keywords: | |
Cc: | eocansey@… | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Reviewers: | ||
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
In the text version of Sage, var('x');
does not print anything.
However, in the notebook, it prints x
, even with the ;
that should prevent output. This is quite annoying. Is there a reason for that?
Also, automatic_names
does not work in the terminal version.
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
- Summary changed from different behaviour of var in notebook and text version to semicolon does not suppress output in the notebook
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-5.11 to sage-5.12
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 9 years ago by
- Summary changed from semicolon does not suppress output in the notebook to inconsistencies between the terminal version and the notebook
note sure what to do with this ticket. At least we can try to list all inconsistencies between the terminal version and the notebook:
1+2;
does not print anything in the terminal version, but does print something in the notebook
__
and____
do not work in the notebook
automatic_names
does not work in the terminal version
Are there any other differences?
Paul
comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 9 years ago by
Replying to zimmerma:
1+2;
does not print anything in the terminal version, but does print something in the notebook
The printing in the notebook is a little more different than just that:
1;2;
prints
1 2
whereas
1 2
prints
2
and
(1 )
prints nothing, whereas
(1)
prints
1
i.e., it seems that all results from statements contained entirely on the last line of the cell are printed, regardless of semicolons, and no other results are. To me this seems a little arbitrary, but resolving this is probably something for the notebook.
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.1 to sage-6.2
comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.2 to sage-6.3
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.3 to sage-6.4
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by
- Description modified (diff)
I've added automatic_names
in the description as a reminder, since we write in our book about Sage (which is currently being translated to english) that automatic_names
does not work in the terminal version.
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.4 to sage-wishlist
automatic_names also doesn't work in the Jupyter Notebook. This was also discussed in #25837. I looked into this a bit à year ago, and it turns out the automatic_names
implementation lives in sagenb. It needs to be moved into the main sage package, and will take some adjusting to integrate into the IPython terminal and Jupyter kernel interfaces.
comment:10 Changed 3 years ago by
- Cc eocansey@… added
I thought I also made a ticket specifically for this issue but I can't find it now, so maybe this is just the one.
comment:11 Changed 2 years ago by
I've created #29888 for automatic_names in Jupyter.
This ticket can still be about differences between the terminal and Jupyter notebook, but probably should be updated for differences between that one and the terminal, not the sagenb and terminal.
Changed the title to identify the underlying issue. Note that 1+2; also prints out something in the notebook, but not in the command line.
My guess is that it is a convention in ipython, since a semicolon does nothing in just plain python: