[petsc-users] petsc4py bool type

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Zhang, Hong <hongzhang at anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> PetscBool is indeed an int. So there is nothing wrong. PETSc does not use bool in order to support C89.
>
>   Yes, but in Python using a bool is more natural. For example in Fortran PETSc uses the Fortran logical as the PetscBool

Right, there is no requirement or even convenience in the Python native
type having the same bit representation.
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