Meta-ticket: improve compatibility with the Python library and Python packages

[slel]

This meta-ticket tracks a few tickets which would
improve compatibility with the Python library.

This would help Sage integrate better with the Python ecosystem.

Tickets regarding the Python library:

• add .bit_length() method to Integer #33676: add .bit_length() method to Integer

• py3: Adapt Sage's range-like functions #30121: py3: Adapt Sage's range-like functions

• Fix more uses of large Python ints #29137: Fix more uses of large Python ints

• Rational number constructor: handle leading '+'? #29006: Rational number constructor: handle leading '+'?

• Support minimal system Python version 3.6 (for venv) #29033: Support minimal system Python version 3.6

• Function math.log10 fails on large Sage integers while ok on Python ints #28912: Function math.log10 fails on large Sage integers while ok on Python ints

• Sage Integers are incompatible with Python fraction.Fraction, statistics.mean, itertools.permutations #28234: Sage numbers are incompatible with Python Fractions and the statistics module

• Make Sage reals and rationals more friendly to Python string formatting #27788: Make Sage reals and rationals more friendly to Python string formatting

• py3: strange behavior of sleep() on Sage types #26311: py3: strange behavior of sleep() on Sage types

• Meta-ticket: Support Python's __copy__ / __deepcopy__ protocol #13811: Meta-ticket: __copy__ and __deepcopy__ protocol

• timedelta doesn't recognize Sage integers #10365: timedelta doesn't recognize Sage integers

• Handle collections.abc classes when constructing enumerated sets #34385: Handle collections.abc classes when constructing enumerated sets

Tickets regarding other Python packages:

• Incompatibility with dask #32477 Incompatibility with dask

See also:

• Meta-ticket: Review of Python 3 features that sagelib should use systematically #29756: Meta-ticket: Review of Python 3 features that sagelib should use systematically
• Meta-ticket: Review of development tools in Sage vs. mainstream Python tools #29670: Meta-ticket: Review of development tools in Sage vs. mainstream Python tools
• Meta-ticket: Adopt mainstream Python testing/linting infrastructure: tox, pytest, ..., describe in Developer's Guide #28936: Meta-ticket: Adopt mainstream Python testing/linting infrastructure, describe in Developer's Guide
• open tickets whose summary contains "Python"

CC: @mkoeppe @slel @fchapoton

Component: python3

Keywords: python

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29728

[slel]

comment:6

Do IPython-related tickets belong in this meta-ticket?

• %lsmagic inoperative when display is text plain #30661: %lsmagic inoperative when display is text plain

[mkoeppe]

comment:7

Setting new milestone based on a cursory review of ticket status, priority, and last modification date.

[slel]

comment:10

Possibly related:

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/68964884

[mkoeppe]

comment:12

Replying to @slel:

Possibly related:

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/68964884

Opened #32477 for this

[slel]

comment:16

#33704: make divmod() work for more rings

[slel]

comment:17

#33676: add bit_length method to Integer