On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote: > We currently have two ways to print object data to the screen in > DOLFIN: > > cout << foo << endl; > > foo.disp() > > The first of these prints a nicely-formatted one-liner: > > [Mesh of topological dimension 2 with 121 vertices and 200 cells] > > The second prints more detailed information: > > Mesh data > --------- > > Mesh topology > ------------- > > Topological dimension: 2 > > Number of entities: > > dim = 0: 121 > dim = 1: 0 > dim = 2: 200 > > ... > > Connectivity: > > 0 1 2 > 0 - - - > 1 - - - > 2 x - - > > Connectivity 2 -- 0: > > 0: 0 1 12 > 1: 0 11 12 > 2: 1 2 13 > 3: 1 12 13 > > I'm thinking we could add a method named str() to all classes and then > call str() both from LogStream<< and from __str__ in Python. > > Should the disp() method remain as it is today or should it be renamed > to something else? Maybe print()?
Or maybe info() is more logical, since calling foo.info() will result in a string being sent to the info() function. -- Anders
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