passagemath-environment 10.8.1rc0

passagemath: System and software environment

passagemath is open source mathematical software in Python, released under the GNU General Public Licence GPLv2+.

It is a fork of SageMath, which has been developed 2005-2025 under the motto “Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB”.

The passagemath fork uses the motto “Creating a Free Passage Between the Scientific Python Ecosystem and Mathematical Software Communities.” It was created in October 2024 with the following goals:

• providing modularized installation with pip,

• establishing first-class membership in the scientific Python ecosystem,

• giving clear attribution of upstream projects,

• providing independently usable Python interfaces to upstream libraries,

• offering platform portability and integration testing services to upstream projects,

• inviting collaborations with upstream projects,

• building a professional, respectful, inclusive community,

• empowering Sage users to participate in the scientific Python ecosystem by publishing packages,

• developing a port to Pyodide for serverless deployment with Javascript,

• developing a native Windows port.

Full documentation is available online.

passagemath attempts to support and provides binary wheels suitable for all major Linux distributions and recent versions of macOS.

Binary wheels for native Windows (x86_64) are are available for a subset of the passagemath distributions. Use of the full functionality of passagemath on Windows currently requires the use of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or virtualization.

The supported Python versions in the passagemath 10.6.x series are 3.10.x-3.14.x.

About this pip-installable distribution package

The pip-installable distribution package passagemath-environment 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”, passagemath-standard), providing the connection to the system and software environment.

What is included

• sage script for launching the Sage REPL and accessing various developer tools (see sage --help, Invoking Sage).

• sage.env

• sage.features: Testing for features of the environment at runtime

• sage.misc.package: Listing packages of the Sage distribution

• sage.misc.package_dir

• sage.misc.temporary_file

• sage.misc.viewer