[petsc4py] What should be the 'default' communicator?

Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 08:20:23 CDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>   Can you  not overload the assignment = to automatically call whatever
>> fancy setter you want to use? Then you get the simplicity I crave and the
>> safety you desire?
>
> Yes, you can make it a 'property'.

No, No. 'property' works with instances of some class, but not with
modules. This is a feature I miss from Python. You cannot 'hook' on
attribute assignments in modules.



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