[petsc-users] petsc4py bool type

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 25 April 2017 at 19:48, Garth N. Wells <gnw20 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm seeing some behaviour with bool types in petsc4py that I didn't
> expect. In the Python interface, returned Booleans have type '<class
> 'int'>', where I expected them to have type ' <class 'bool'>'. Below
> program illustrates issue. Seems to be related to bint in cython. Am I
> doing something wrong?

Wow! Yes, you are right, this seems like a regression in Cython. In
the past, a <bint> cast used to coerce values to the Python `bool`
type. Damn, these casts are everywhere, it might take a while to fix
all the code, unless I can find a hacky way to workaround the issue.


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