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[Bartosz Sawicki <sawickib@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This problem is not only related with python wrapper to Variable class. 
In PVTKFile.cpp you can find that dumped results is always named as "U".
So it doesn't matter how you call your function ;)

cheers,
BArtosz

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> How can I set the name of a Function as it appears in a .pvd file?
> When looking at two fields simultaneously in paraview, they need
> separate names to have separate color ranges.
>
>
> In Python I get this when trying rename:
>
>
> In [16]: f.rename?
> Type:		instancemethod
> Base Class:	<type 'instancemethod'>
> String Form:	<bound method DiscreteFunction.Variable_rename of
> Function(FiniteElement('Lagrange', Cell('triangle', 1), 1), 0)>
> Namespace:	Interactive
> Docstring:
>     Variable_rename(Variable self, string name, string label)
>
>
> In [17]: f.rename("f", "m")
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> /home/martinal/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> TypeError: in method 'Variable_rename', argument 1 of type 'dolfin::Variable *'
>
>
> No rush, I can of course just change the name in the .pvd file with
> sed for now...
>
> Martin
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