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

Johan Hake wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2008 14:29:08 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > Could a Python expert take a look at site-packges/dolfin/function.py?
> > The code directly following the comment
> >
> >   # Special case, Function(element, mesh, x), need to create simple form
> > to get arguments
> >
> > need to be updated but I don't understand it well.
>
> The first special case is for initializing a Function with a given Vector, by 
> constructing a dofmap from the handed element.
>
> As constructing a Function from a vector is removed from the cpp interface, 
> and we have not, (or have we?) figured out how to wrap a shared_ptr in swig, 
> we should probably just remove the first case for now.

We don't need to use a shared_ptr. It's just no longer necessary to pass 
a Vector. The vector can be accessed after the Function has been created.

Garth

> Johan