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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/11 09:33, Anders Logg wrote:
> Question #148679 on DOLFIN changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/148679
> 
>     Status: Open => Answered
> 
> Anders Logg proposed the following answer:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:24:15AM -0000, Jørgen Myre wrote:
>> New question #148679 on DOLFIN:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/148679
>>
>> I'm working with code developed for the cbc.rans-package (https://launchpad.net/cbc.rans), and using dolfin 0.9.10 I have encountered this error:
>>
>> (copied from ipython interface)
>> (V is a FunctionSpace or VectorFunctionSpace)
>>
>>     117         dofmap = V.dofmap()
>> --> 118         n = dofmap.max_local_dimension()
>>
>> AttributeError: 'GenericDofMap' object has no attribute 'max_local_dimension'
>>
>> I am told this is because 'max_local_dimension' is a variable in dolfin 0.9.9, but removed in 0.9.10.  How can I get the same variable for dolfin 0.9.10?
> 
> I don't know why this was removed in 0.9.10. I think we can just add
> it back (unless there's a good reason for deleting I'm not aware of).
>

Some DofMap functions have been re-named to avoid confusion in parallel.
It was not clear if 'local' means local to a process of to a cell.

Garth


> In the meantime, you should be able to change the above code to
> 
>   n = V.element().space_dimension()
> 
> --
> Anders
>