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Message #20892
Re: itercell and consistency in Python interface of DOLFIN
On Friday January 21 2011 07:08:26 Joachim Berdal Haga wrote:
> > Compare the values and itervalues method in a dict. I would expect
> > cell(mesh) to return a list of cells or somthing.
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> Note that this changes in py3, where most of the APIs are changed to
> return iterators (or views) instead of lists, and iter* are removed.
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> http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#views-and-iterators-
> instead-of-lists
Good to know! Then I guess DOLFIN was a head of its time by making cells an
iterator ;) We can change the naming of the member function once we shift to
py3. When ever that happens...
Johan
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