Posts Tagged ‘open source software’

Yes you can import Sage as a library in a Python script. One caveat is that you need to run that Python script using the version of Python that is bundled with Sage; currently Python 2.6.x. To import Sage, put the following in your Python script:

from sage.all import *

Then when you want to run your [...]


The 2009 Software Freedom Day (SFD) took place on Saturday 19th September. The Linux Users of Victoria group organized the celebration at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. I have uploaded some photos taken during the day to picasa. Brianna Laugher has uploaded more photos. Here’s a news item at iTWire about the SFD celebration in [...]


After compiling a source version of Sage, you can choose to run the test suite on the whole Sage library, on all modules under a given directory, or on a specified module only. For the purposes of this post, I have compiled Sage 4.1.1 from source and the top level Sage directory is

[mvngu@mod sage-4.1.1]$ pwd
/scratch/mvngu/build/sage-4.1.1

Testing [...]