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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:46:42AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> 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.

So the solution is then to use dofmap.max_cell_dimension().

I'm not sure that's a good name. It's not obvious what cell_dimension
is.

--
Anders