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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/27 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

Also, "get" and "set" without context is impossible to read
any meaning from. Not good global names anyway.

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Martin