On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Johan Hake wrote: > On Saturday 20 June 2009 13:10:46 Garth N. Wells wrote: > > I tried to do > > > > u0.vector() = u1.vector() > > > > where u0 and u1 are both discrete functions, in PyDOLFIN but it doesn't > > work so I'm using > > > > u0.vector().assign( u1.vector() ) > > This is the correct way to do it. Assignment operators are just ignored for > the dynamically typed languges supported by SWIG. We therefore rename the > foo.operator= to foo.assign. > > However for the Vector and Matrix interfaces we also support the numpy > lookalike assignment: > > v[:] = u > > and > > A[:,:] = B > > I have talked to Anders about removing both v.assign and v.set(double *) > and "force" the PyDOLFIN users to use the numpy assignments. > > Johan
Yes, I think that's a good idea. It reduces the number of options and makes users aware of the nice slicing interface. -- Anders
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