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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:13:41AM +0200, Johan Hake wrote:
>> On Monday 13 April 2009 22:23:12 Robert Kirby wrote:
>> > I didn't see it as a sub of cpp.  thanks for pointing that out.  no_prec is
>> > a better namegiven what "None" means in python.
>>
>> I think that it was not imported to the main dolfin namespace because of it
>> resemblens to the Python None.
>>
>> Untill we have settled the enum vs string vs parameters we can just declare a
>> variable in the PyDOLFIN namespace
>>
>>   no_prec = 0
>>
>> which would work fine in this case as the enums from DOLFIN is mapped to
>> integer variables in Python.
>>
>> Johan
>
> I vote for strings, and using the parameter system whenever possible.

A nice feature for the parameter system would be printing a message with valid
values whenever the user tries to set some string that doesn't make sense.

Martin