doctest failure in functions/special.py

[williamstein]

sage -t -optional devel/sage-darcs/sage/functions/special.py*******************************************************\

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File "special.py", line 756:
sage: inverse_jacobi("sn",0.47,1/2)
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/was/sage/local/lib/python2.4/doctest.py", line 1243, in __run
compileflags, 1) in test.globs
File "<doctest main.example13[1]>", line 1, in ?
inverse_jacobi("sn",RealNumber('0.47'),Integer(1)/Integer(2))###line 756:
sage: inverse_jacobi("sn",0.47,1/2)
File "/home/was/sage/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sage/functions/special.py", line 785, in inverse_jacob
i
return eval(maxima.eval("inverse_jacobi_sn(%s,%s)"%(RR(x),RR(m))))
File "", line 1
^[[
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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File "special.py", line 758:
sage: inverse_jacobi("sn",0.4707504,1/2)
Exception raised:

Component: basic arithmetic

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/11

[williamstein]

comment:1

Fixed:

The main trick was to use float conversions instead of RR before
calling into maxima.