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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Scott Kruger <kruger at txcorp.com> wrote:

> 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


Good catch!

The other thing I remember argparse not doing last time I checked, was that
it could
group options into sections like we want for our help.

   Matt


>    Matt
>>
>>        We're
>>     here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't
>>     exist anywhere*.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
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>>
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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
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