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[Ola Skavhaug <skavhaug@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Jansson skrev den 18/09-2006 f�de:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:04:14PM +0200, Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> > I've written some extensions to the NewMesh class in dolfin, such that the
> > lists of cells and vertices are exposted to Python as Numeric.arrays.
> > 
> > I haven't debugged the code with respect to memory leaks or other robustness
> > checks, so use it at your own risk :)
> > 
> > A simple test script would be:
> > 
> > from dolfin import *
> > 
> > us = NewUnitSqure(10,10)
> > print us.cells()
> > print us.vetices()
> > 
> > The next step on my agenda is to add support for the new mesh in our runtime
> > vtk-plotter, and issue a GPLed version to you guys.
> > 
> > 
> > Ola
> 
> This is excellent. It would be nice to expose containers in general as
> native Python types, this is a nice start.

Sure, I agree that converting the overlapping types to native Python usually
pays off in some way. At least, a more "Pythonic" interface can be achieved.

I guess that it boils down to a design issue. Do you want to adjust the API of
dolfin when exposing it to various languages?
 
>   Johan
>