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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> We currently have two ways to print object data to the screen in
> DOLFIN:
> 
>   cout << foo << endl;
> 
>   foo.disp()
> 
> The first of these prints a nicely-formatted one-liner:
> 
>   [Mesh of topological dimension 2 with 121 vertices and 200 cells]
> 
> The second prints more detailed information:
> 
> Mesh data
> ---------
>   
>   Mesh topology
>   -------------
>     
>     Topological dimension: 2
>     
>     Number of entities:
>     
>       dim = 0: 121
>       dim = 1: 0
>       dim = 2: 200
> 
>     ...
>     
>     Connectivity:
>     
>         0 1 2
>       0 - - -
>       1 - - -
>       2 x - -
>       
>     Connectivity 2 -- 0:
>     
>       0: 0 1 12
>       1: 0 11 12
>       2: 1 2 13
>       3: 1 12 13
> 
> I'm thinking we could add a method named str() to all classes and then
> call str() both from LogStream<< and from __str__ in Python.
> 
> Should the disp() method remain as it is today or should it be renamed
> to something else? Maybe print()?

Or maybe info() is more logical, since calling foo.info() will result
in a string being sent to the info() function.

-- 
Anders

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