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I have a question regarding the single precision complex numbers of petsc4py.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> 
</span>I configured PETSc with the “--with-scalar-type=complex --with-precision=single" option before compiling, but all the DA structures I created with petsc4py had double precision.  </p>
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Here is a minimum test code on Python 3.8/PETSc 3.12/petsc4py 3.12: both print commands show data type of complex128.  Could anybody please help me?  Thanks!</p>
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<pre class="lang-py s-code-block" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:calc(var(--s-prose-spacing) + 0.4em);padding:var(--su12);line-height:var(--lh-md);font-family:var(--ff-mono);font-size:var(--fs-body1);width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;background-color:var(--highlight-bg);border-radius:var(--br-md);color:var(--highlight-color);text-align:left"><code class="hljs language-python" style="margin:0px"><span class="hljs-keyword" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-keyword)">import</span> petsc4py
<span class="hljs-keyword" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-keyword)">import</span> sys
petsc4py.init(sys.argv)
<span class="hljs-keyword" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-keyword)">from</span> petsc4py <span class="hljs-keyword" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-keyword)">import</span> PETSc

da=PETSc.DA().create(sizes=[<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">2</span>,<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">2</span>,<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">2</span>],dof=<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">1</span>,stencil_type=<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">0</span>,stencil_width=<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">1</span>,boundary_type=<span class="hljs-number" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-namespace)">1</span>)
da_1 = da.createGlobalVec()
<span class="hljs-built_in" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-literal)">print</span>(petsc4py.PETSc.ComplexType)
<span class="hljs-built_in" style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;color:var(--highlight-literal)">print</span>(da_1.getArray().dtype)</code></pre>
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Best regards,</p>
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Peng Sun</p>
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