Did you never thinnk about the possibility of renaming ISLocalToGlobalMapping to something shorter? IMOH it is painfuly long name.
In petsc4py, I call this LGMapping, because ISLocalToGlobalMapping, in my view, is not an IS, and its usage is similar to AOMapping. -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594