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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 21:59:28 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:42:13PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> > Until this is in place, you should be able to do this already
> > now. Just store the vectors to file and read them back in again.
> >
> > file << u.vector()
> >
> > file >> u.vector()
>
> On second thought, try the new constructor I just added:
>
>   Function u(V, "vector.xml");
>
> When it's been verified that this works both in Python and C++, and
> the demos have been migrated we can remove the precompiled elements.

Is it ok to add this functionality in Python without using this constructor? 
It is much easier in python to construct a discrete function and then read in 
the vector and assign it after construction.

Johan