a current state of python bindings

[Mads Fredrik Skoge Hoel]

Hi Ondrej,

I tried out petsc4py, i could not find any documentation. I used alot of
time just trying to get it to work. And without documentation, i tried to
guess, and finally managed to construct a Mat object. It seems that
petsc4py is currently in an experimental version.

You might also want to have a look at PyPetsc:
https://elefant.developer.nicta.com.au/documentation/userguide/PyPetscManual.pdf
and
https://elefant.developer.nicta.com.au/developer/designdocs/PyPetscDesignRef.pdf

I have not tried the PyPetsc, but at least there is documentation.

Regards,
Mads

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> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using PETSc from Python. I read the post:
>>
>> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/petsc-users/2006/08/msg00090.html
>>
>> I am currently using the petsc4py, but unfortunately, they don't seem
>> to have uptodate webpage. The most recent version, that works with
>> petsc 2.3.2 can be found here:
>>
>> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/petsc4py/0.7.2
>>
>> However, there are some bindings inside the petsc tarball, but I
>> didn't find any documentation for them - are they deprecated?
>
>   Yes.
>>
>> Also, I would like to create a debian package "python-petsc" with
>> python bindings to petsc (and get it to debian main distribution), so
>> I wanted to check with you, what the most advanced python bindigs
>> actually are (and which I should package).
>
>   At this time we are recommending petsc4py.
>
>    Barry
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ondrej
>>
>>
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