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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Now that we have removed the read/write Function from/to file in the c++
> interface we have to change the python interface too. I haven't done this
> yet.
>
> But before I do this I wonder if we _should_ add some logic in the python
> interface that allow the functionality we previously had, i.e., writing and
> reading Function to and from a file directly?
>
> We could perhaps extend the <</>> operator in the c++ wrapper so an xml file
> with the vector, mesh and the FiniteElement signature will be saved in. Then
> in python we can jit compile the FE, when reading the file. We should
> probably have one constructor taking only the xml file but also one taking an
> optional mesh argument, preventing the problems with duplications of meshes.
>
> Would this be desirable? I know Ola have made some thoughts about this.

Only for toy programs. We still need to share the function spaces
between functions.

Martin