__SAGE_SYNCHRO_MARKER_ with Maxima

[Ingo Dahn]

Sagecell with language Maxima recognizes the % symbol but does not use it. Instead it prints it as  __SAGE_SYNCHRO_MARKER_... .

An example is here.

[Andrey Novoseltsev]

When I put % expression into the same cell, so that it is fed into Maxima as a single chunk of code, I get the same result. So I think this is how Sage handles it, nothing SageMathCell specific.

[Ingo Dahn]

In Maxima % refers to the result of the previous cell. The Read in the menu bar in the referenced page shows the intended behavior. Should I report this somewhere else?

[Andrey Novoseltsev]

How did you get the Read version? Is it Jupyter notebook with Maxima kernel, i.e. with no Sage involvement?

I do believe that the issue is with Sage pexpect interface since I get the same results evaluating 

print(maxima.eval("""

144^25;

%^(1/25);

"""))

in Sage mode - this is equivalent to picking Maxima as the language.

[Ingo Dahn]

The Read version was generated from the ipynb from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/calyau/maxima-tutorial-notebooks/master/notebooks/First%20Steps%20with%20Maxima.ipynb and processed using a (slightly adapted) nbpreview (https://github.com/jsvine/nbpreview). It is a static HTML page generated directly from the ipynb, no Maxima or Sage involved.