[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Using PETSC with an openMP program

[Scott Kruger]

On 3/2/18 12:44 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org 
> <mailto:jed at jedbrown.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com <mailto:knepley at gmail.com>> writes:
> 
>      > That is not the same as printing unused arguments. Michael's Pythia
>      > does this correctly, but it is even less simple.
> 
>     You want it to accept the unused arguments and just print them without
>     error, or some more subtle relationship among dependent options?
> 
> 
> Yes, I do. I consider PETSc to have the correct functionality. The open 
> world
> assumption is a good one, as long as you report that no one accepted 
> that option.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#partial-parsing

Requires Python > 2.7



> 
>    Matt
> 
>        We're
>     here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't
>     exist anywhere*.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their 
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which 
> their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
> 
> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>

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