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2PETSc for Python
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5Overview
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8Welcome to PETSc for Python. This package provides Python bindings for
9PETSc_, the *Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation*.
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11Dependencies
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14* A matching version of PETSc_ built with *shared/dynamic libraries*.
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16* Python_ 2.7, 3.3 or above.
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18* A recent NumPy_ release.
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20* To work with the in-development version, you need Cython_.
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22.. _PETSc:  http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/
23.. _Python: http://www.python.org
24.. _NumPy:  http://www.numpy.org
25.. _Cython: http://www.cython.org
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27Documentation
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30* http://petsc4py.readthedocs.org/, This does not contain the epydoc-generated API reference.
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32* http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc4py-current/docs/, This is for the last release, not the in-development version.
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