[petsc-users] Simultaneous use petsc4py and fortran/petsc-based python module

[Gaetan Kenway]

There shouldn't be any additional issue with the petsc4py wrapper. We do
this all the time. In fact, it's generally best to use the petsc4py to do
the initialization of petsc at the very top of your highest level python
script. You'll need to do this anyway if you want to use command line
arguments to change the petsc arch.
Again, its probably some 4/8 byte issue or maybe a real/complex issue that
is caused by the petsc4py import initializing something different from what
you expect.

Gaetan

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Austin Herrema <aherrema at iastate.edu>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Another question in a fairly long line of questions from me. Thank you to
> this community for all the help I've gotten.
>
> I have a Fortran/PETSc-based code that, with the help of f2py and some of
> you, I have compiled into a python module (we'll call it pc_fort_mod). So I
> can now successfully execute my code with
>
> import pc_fort_mod
> pc_fort_mod.execute()
>
> I am now hoping to use this analysis module in a large optimization
> problem being solved with OpenMDAO <http://openmdao.org/>. OpenMDAO also
> makes use of PETSc/petsc4py, which, unsurprisingly, does not play well with
> my PETSc-based module. So doing
>
> from petsc4py import PETSc
> import pc_fort_mod
> pc_fort_mod.execute()
>
> causes the pc_fort_mod execution to fail (in particular, preallocation
> fails with an exit code of 63, "input argument out of range." I assume the
> matrix is invalid or something along those lines).
>
> So my question is, is there any way to make this work? Or is this pretty
> much out of the realm of what should be possible at this point?
>
> Thank you,
> Austin
>
>
> --
> *Austin Herrema*
> PhD Student | Graduate Research Assistant | Iowa State University
> Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy | Mechanical Engineering
>
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