[petsc-users] petsc4py: Passing command line switches

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using the petsc4py. It works fine after some hurdling with missing
> documentation. (were not able to find API doc anywhere, I generated it
> myself now).
>
> I try to use the switches like -ksp_monitor like that:
>
> import petsc4py
> from petsc4py import PETSc
>
> petsc4py.init(sys.argv)
>
> but no reaction when calling my script like that:
>
> python prbf.py -ksp_monitor
>
> What am I doing wrong? I also tried calling init before importing PETSc
> but no changes.
>

Did you remember to call setFromOptions() on the KSP? We do not configure
anything from
the command line unless you tell us to. That way, people can do things
solely from the API
is they want.

How did you generate the documentation?

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Thanks,
> Florian
>



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