Opened 11 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#9724 closed defect (duplicate)
Sage allows creation of variables with empty name
Reported by: | logix | Owned by: | burcin |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix |
Component: | symbolics | Keywords: | sd31 |
Cc: | schilly | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Reviewers: | Volker Braun, Mariah Lenox | |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description
Sage allows you to create a variable with an empty name. While this at first appears not to cause any problems, one thing it does break is reset():
sage: var(' ') (, ) sage: whos Variable Type Data/Info ---------------------------------- Expression sage: reset() ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (437, 0)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IndexError Traceback (most recent call last) /usr/local/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/all_cmdline.pyc in <module>() /usr/local/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/reset.so in sage.misc.reset.reset (sage/misc/reset.c:838)() IndexError: string index out of range sage: del globals()[''] sage: reset()
Sage also allows the creation of variables with other illegal names (e.g. '1a' or '1'), but for these at least reset() still works. There are two ways to fix this, the first is to disallow the creation of such variables via var(), but then all illegal cases would have to be taken care of, and it wouldn't help if you created illegal variables manually by inserting them into globals() (but I would argue that if you do this, you're on your own anyway). The second way to fix the behaviour above would be to make reset() able to delete empty variables too. This however is only viable if these variables don't break anything else, other than the case mentioned above.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
- Keywords sd31 added; variable empty name removed
- Milestone changed from sage-4.7.1 to sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
- Status changed from new to needs_review
Fixed in the patch on #7496:
sage: var(' ') --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/vbraun/opt/sage-4.7.1.alpha2/devel/sage-main/<ipython console> in <module>() /home/vbraun/Sage/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/calculus/var.so in sage.calculus.var.var (sage/calculus/var.c:687)() /home/vbraun/Sage/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/symbolic/ring.so in sage.symbolic.ring.SymbolicRing.var (sage/symbolic/ring.cpp:6276)() /home/vbraun/Sage/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/symbolic/ring.so in sage.symbolic.ring.SymbolicRing.var (sage/symbolic/ring.cpp:6048)() ValueError: The name "" is not a valid Python identifier.
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 10 years ago by
- Reviewers set to Volker Braun, Mariah Lenox
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
Apparently this means this should be closed. Probably proper form is to let the release manager change the milestone, right, Jeroen? :)
I'm assuming that Mariah's comment on #7496 means she checked this out, so I'm putting her and Volker as reviewers for closing this.
comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by
It does work. This is not mentioned in the patch for #7496, though, so I'm adding a doctest there.
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 10 years ago by
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from positive_review to closed
Replying to kcrisman:
Probably proper form is to let the release manager change the milestone, right, Jeroen? :)
No, it is easier if you change the milestone to "sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix" and set to "positive_review". This gives me the best overview on http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/40. I will then close the ticket.
Perhaps one could add a warning message giving a hint in other cases, too.
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