[SciPy-dev] help: wrapping generalized symmetric evp functions

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Robert Cimrman <cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz> wrote:
> Nathan Bell wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Robert Cimrman <cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz> wrote:
>  >>  There could be even proper solver classes (LinearSolver,
>  >>  EigenvalueSolver, etc.) with a common interface in each solver family.
>  >>  Below, as an example, is the code we use in sfepy. As you can see, the
>  >>  solver classes have only the __init__ method (can be used e.g. to
>  >>  pre-factorize a matrix in the case of a linear solver) and the __call__
>  >>  method (application of the solver). Would it be interesting to have
>  >>  something in that spirit in scipy?
>  >>
>  >>  class Solver( Struct ):
>  >>      def __init__( self, conf, **kwargs ):
>  >>          Struct.__init__( self, conf = conf, **kwargs )
>  >>      def __call__( self, **kwargs ):
>  >>          print 'called an abstract Solver instance!'
>  >>          raise ValueError
>  >>
>  > <snip>
>  >
>  > Robert, I like the idea of having an abstract interface to the various
>  > solvers/eigensolvers.  I'm currently battling with this in PyAMG for
>  > various coarse-grid solvers and relaxation methods.
>  >
>  > We should definitely pursue this idea further.  In the meantime, we
>  > should strive to make the arguments to the individual solvers as
>  > uniform as possible (e.g. 'tol', 'maxiter', preconditioners, etc).
>  > This will make LinearSolver() etc. easier to create.
>
>  We could make a proposal on the wiki, let's say
>  http://scipy.org/SolversProposal? If all are ok with this name, I will
>  initiallize the page with what we have in sfepy, to have something to
>  start with.

Please start the page.

Ondrej