[petsc-users] Is there a corresponding function in petsc4py to VecMPISetFhost

[Jed Brown]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>
> > No, but you can use Vec.createGhost()
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Din Zhao <sean.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And in general, does any function in petsc have a counterpart in
> petsc4py?
> >
> > Most do, but the projects are maintained somewhat separately so not
> every one make it into petsc4py. Also, sometimes a more "pythonic"
> interface is adopted by petsc4py, so the calls don't line up exactly.
>
>    We do intend to have the same functionality in both, so if something is
> a bit different on the pythonic side we still want it to have the same
> functionality.
>

Here is Vec.setMPIGhost()

http://code.google.com/p/petsc4py/source/detail?r=25b193708e130337ead16adf6c0a7851b1e90f0b

This patch includes a test and a change to handling of the local form.
Lisandro, is it okay to depend on the 'with' statement here? Since the old
code never called VecGhostRestoreLocalForm(), I consider it to have been
non-compliant. Would you prefer to handle this in a different way?

http://code.google.com/p/petsc4py/source/detail?r=1f45f9ab5d8df8695bc3e0c6c662658911f519fb
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