[petsc-dev] script.py

[Jed Brown]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:16:22 -0600, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>      Perhaps the status should be set to 0 and the error to '' in the  
> situation where I put in the wrong values (thinking it was failure).

I tried that, but it broke something else.  It seems that the convention
is to set these globals before calling, and then check whether they have
changed.  This looks very yucky to me, perhaps Matt can explain why it
is this way.

Jed