.. _spkg_sagemath_objects:

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sagemath_objects: Sage objects, elements, parents, categories, coercion, metaclasses
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About SageMath
--------------

   "Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to
    Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB"

   Copyright (C) 2005-2024 The Sage Development Team

   https://www.sagemath.org

SageMath fully supports all major Linux distributions, recent versions of
macOS, and Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

See https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/index.html
for general installation instructions.


About this pip-installable distribution package
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The pip-installable distribution package `sagemath-objects` is a
distribution of a small part of the Sage Library.

It provides a small, fundamental subset of the modules of the Sage library
("sagelib", `sagemath-standard`), making Sage objects, the element/parent
framework, categories, the coercion system and the related metaclasses
available.


Dependencies
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When building from source, development packages of `gmp`, `mpfr`, and `mpc` are needed.


Documentation
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* `Categories <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/categories/index.html>`_

* `Structure <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/structure/index.html>`_

* `Coercion <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/coercion/index.html>`_

* `Classes, Metaclasses <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/misc/index.html#special-base-classes-decorators-etc>`_

Type
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optional


Dependencies
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- $(PYTHON)
- $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)
- :ref:`spkg_cysignals`
- :ref:`spkg_cython`
- :ref:`spkg_gmpy2`
- :ref:`spkg_pkgconfig`
- :ref:`spkg_python_build`
- :ref:`spkg_sage_setup`
- :ref:`spkg_sagemath_environment`

Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    10.7

version_requirements.txt::

    sagemath-objects ~= 10.7


Equivalent System Packages
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(none known)

