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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:03:33AM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > 2008/8/27 Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > How do I set a parameter for an object in PyDOLFIN? I'd like to set
> > > Newton solver parameters in demo/nls/nonlinearpoisson/python/demo.py.
> > > The code
> > >
> > >     nonlinear_solver = NewtonSolver()
> > >     nonlinear_solver.dolfin_set("Newton maximum iterations", 50)
> > foo.dolfin_set is a rather strange name for this, what about
> > setParameter or setParam or something?
>
> It should be just get() and set(). It is in C++.

Why aren't "get" and "set" automatically available for objects? I recall 
that "global" get and set conflict with reserved names in Python, or 
something along this line, hence the use of dolfin_get/set.

Garth

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