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Re: Python Form

 

On 07/01/11 01:05, Johan Hake wrote:
On Jun 30, 2011, at 12:41, "Marie E. Rognes"<meg@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

On 06/05/11 21:47, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
On 06/01/2011 05:45 PM, Johan Hake wrote:
On Wednesday June 1 2011 05:31:35 Anders Logg wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:29:20PM +0200, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
I'm for some strange reason loooking at dolfin.fem.Form and

dolfin.fem.assemble:
     The form can be either an FFC form or a precompiled UFC form. If a
     precompiled or 'pure' FFC form is given, then coefficients and
     function_spaces have to be provided too. The coefficient functions

Where and in what cases is the above used?
I think this is something Martin and possibly Kent have requested
before. It's not used anywhere I know.
They were added so one could use dolfin to assemble a "pure" ufc::form. This
is a nice feature for people who come with their own form compiler, which is
not fully integrated with all the PyDOLFIN magic we have.

The statement:

   "dolfin can assemble any ufc complaint code"

becomes a little more true with that possibility.

Ok, thanks :-)
Late follow-up: so is the logic in dolfin.fem.form regarding given function_spaces and coefficients versus those in form_data mainly designed around this?
Not sure I understand your question...


Sorry, I was unacceptably unclear.

What I meant to ask was this: if assemble did not handle both a "FFC form" and a "precompiled form"(*), but rather just a "FFC form" would it be sufficient to have a dolfin.fem.Form class that only had form, form_compiler_parameters and common_cell as input to __init__?

(*) Side note: I'm using the terminology of the docstring of dolfin.fem.assembling here, but I find it a bit confusing, because it refers to a "precompiled or pure FFC form" as the same thing -- should it be "precompiled or pure UFC form"?

:-)

--
Marie



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