eja: use an insane hack to hide the (left_)matrix methods for elements.

diff --git a/mjo/eja/euclidean_jordan_algebra.py b/mjo/eja/euclidean_jordan_algebra.py
index 4b46380708e05fdeb564d300c6f5cca7f91178e7..640048543cff7eb2e2a737f8fa49dfdb56b5991e 100644 (file)
--- a/mjo/eja/euclidean_jordan_algebra.py
+++ b/mjo/eja/euclidean_jordan_algebra.py
@@ -340,6 +340,16 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanAlgebra(FiniteDimensionalAlgebra):
         An element of a Euclidean Jordan algebra.
         """
 
+        def __dir__(self):
+            """
+            Oh man, I should not be doing this. This hides the "disabled"
+            methods ``left_matrix`` and ``matrix`` from introspection;
+            in particular it removes them from tab-completion.
+            """
+            return filter(lambda s: s not in ['left_matrix', 'matrix'],
+                          dir(self.__class__) )
+
+
         def __init__(self, A, elt=None):
             """
             EXAMPLES:
@@ -862,6 +872,16 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanAlgebra(FiniteDimensionalAlgebra):
             return self.span_of_powers().dimension()
 
 
+        def left_matrix(self):
+            """
+            Our parent class defines ``left_matrix`` and ``matrix``
+            methods whose names are misleading. We don't want them.
+            """
+            raise NotImplementedError("use operator_matrix() instead")
+
+        matrix = left_matrix
+
+
         def minimal_polynomial(self):
             """
             Return the minimal polynomial of this element,