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

[Barry Smith]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> 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.

    This seems a fundamental stupidity of python. Why can't you make  
this PETSc thing
be a python class where the default_comm is a property?

    Barry

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