randstate missing from the reference manual

[Ryan Hinton]

Where is the sage.misc.randstate module listed in the reference
manual? I can't find it. Of course, I can get its documentation from
the command line,

sage: sage.misc.randstate?

but then I can't use my command line for trying things out. :-)

Thanks!

- Ryan

[Jason Grout]

It looks like all of that excellent documentation Carl Witty wrote has
not yet been converted to rest, so it hasn't been included in the
reference manual.

For a stop-gap solution, I'd suggest opening two terminals :).

If you have a bit more time (or someone has that nifty script that Mike
used to automatically convert lots of the documentation), you can fix
the problem by converting the file to rest and adding it to the
reference manual by adding the line

sage/misc/randstate

to $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/doc/en/reference/misc.rst

and then doing

sage -docbuild reference html

to build the documentation.

Thanks,

Jason

[John H Palmieri]

Try the patch here:

<http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/palmieri/misc/randstate.patch>

(apply it and then rebuild the reference manual)

--
John