eja: don't wait for a non-nilpotent element in trivial algebras.

diff --git a/mjo/eja/eja_element.py b/mjo/eja/eja_element.py
index 5b8bc1e98a58ef03234e8a966a75eefd859c461c..3491b69230b0d430fdfa936b3399ebfc88259988 100644 (file)
--- a/mjo/eja/eja_element.py
+++ b/mjo/eja/eja_element.py
@@ -1270,10 +1270,13 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanAlgebraElement(IndexedFreeModuleElement):
 
             sage: from mjo.eja.eja_algebra import random_eja
 
-        TESTS::
+        TESTS:
+
+        Ensure that we can find an idempotent in a non-trivial algebra
+        where there are non-nilpotent elements::
 
             sage: set_random_seed()
-            sage: J = random_eja()
+            sage: J = random_eja(nontrivial=True)
             sage: x = J.random_element()
             sage: while x.is_nilpotent():
             ....:     x = J.random_element()