[petsc-users] petsc4py, plotting DA and writing to file

[Amal Alghamdi]

Thank you very much everybody for the prompt help.
Amal

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:

> Agree on both points.
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 19:13, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 19:07, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >>> This could be done by putting into the C code the usual "case" handling
> for the new viewer and then have
> >>> it dispatch back to the python code.
> >>
> >> Right, but then it sounds like you're distributing the viewer with
> >> PETSc (instead of petsc4py of some third-party plugin).
> >
> >  No, the viewer is distributed with petsc4py or some other package, but
> yes the PETSc source code is augmented also. In fact one could organize it
> so one extra "dispatcher" could support many different python viewers;
> essentially a shell Viewer :-)
> >
> >
> >>  We had a long
> >> thread a while ago about making multiple dispatch runtime-extensible
> >> in both arguments.
> >
> >   I was just pointing out that something "quick and dirty" can be done
> now without the multiple dispatch system.
> >
> >   I am not opposed to a multiple dispatch system to handle this; but no
> one has proposed specifics for such a system that pass the "good enough for
> PETSc" test.
> >
> >  Barry
> >
> >>
> >> Jed
> >
> >
>
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