import sage.all.* into the interact library

[jasongrout]

This patch:

diff -r 553928e53141 sage/interacts/library.py
--- a/sage/interacts/library.py Mon Jan 10 10:03:25 2011 +0100
+++ b/sage/interacts/library.py Thu Jan 13 09:01:40 2011 -0800
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 """
 
 from sagenb.notebook.interact import interact, slider, range_slider, input_box
-from sage.all import sin, plot, point, html, show, latex, SR,exp
-x=SR.var('x')
-
+from sage.all import *
+x=var('x')
+       
 from sage.misc.decorators import sage_wraps
 from sage.misc.html import html
 

makes it much easier to move interacts to the library since you don't have to define every single thing you use from the sage library.

CC: @sagetrac-mhampton

Component: interact

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/10622

[jasongrout]

comment:1

I'm a little surprised that there aren't circular import problems here, so this should definitely be tested. If it works, it's a big win for making interacts easier to port to the library.

Marshall, can you test this and turn it into a real patch?

[sagetrac-mhampton]

comment:2

I'll try to fold this into #9623 and test the result. It would be cool if it works. I tried to add that import to the decorator but couldn't get it to work.

[sagetrac-mhampton]

comment:3

This seems to work remarkably well. I will refactor #9623 accordingly. I would like to do these together to avoid merge annoyances.

[jasongrout]

comment:4

Yes, I hit a limitation in Python when I tried to import * in the decorator. A quick search led to several emails by Guido et. al. in 2001 about this being a problem or something.

Anyways, import * at the module namespace works. It just means that people better not try to tab-complete on interacts.library., since it will give the entire Sage namespace, I believe!