On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ethan Coon <ecoon at lanl.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > > > > > > You would need the whole BuildSystem in order to interpret it (and > > maybe the PETSc parts as well). > > > Right, which defeats the purpose of having a python module that gets > installed with PETSc to read/write binary files from python. > I don't think it defeats the purpose at all. We should be installing BuildSystem. I hate the idea of generated a whole bunch of custom, unsupported metadata that will bitrot away in a year. Matt > I guess the way to get this info is to parse both petscconf.h and > petscvariables to pull out datatypes used in the binary files. The > matlab scripts doing binary IO require you to know this ahead of time, > but that seems a little silly when we should be able to get this info > from the installation. I just assumed that all of this would be defined > somewhere in petscvariables. > > Ethan > > > I > > don't think this is that bad. Python does not have the Java > > serialization model. > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > Ethan > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > Ethan > > > > > > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:24 -0500, Barry Smith > > wrote: > > > > PETSC_USE_64BIT_INDICES > > > -- > > > ------------------------------------ > > > Ethan Coon > > > Post-Doctoral Researcher > > > Applied Mathematics - T-5 > > > Los Alamos National Laboratory > > > 505-665-8289 > > > > > > http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/ > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin > > their > > > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results > > to which > > > their experiments lead. > > > -- Norbert Wiener > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------ > > Ethan Coon > > Post-Doctoral Researcher > > Applied Mathematics - T-5 > > Los Alamos National Laboratory > > 505-665-8289 > > > > http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/ > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their > > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which > > their experiments lead. > > -- Norbert Wiener > > -- > ------------------------------------ > Ethan Coon > Post-Doctoral Researcher > Applied Mathematics - T-5 > Los Alamos National Laboratory > 505-665-8289 > > http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/ > ------------------------------------ > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20111018/6e1eade1/attachment.html>
