On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:33, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

A single system, with real scoping, easy debugging, more readable code, etc.

Would you like a pony? What does this even mean? There is logic for a PETSc program to attach a debugger to itself. The details of that logic depends on tests that are run by configure. PETSc does not presently require Python at runtime. If you were to refactor it, where would the logic go and how would it be called from C?