FIT

purpose

The fit package fits polynomials to function and derivative data.

Currently only the options and inform dictionaries are exposed; these are provided and used by other GALAHAD packages with Python interfaces. Please contact us if you would like full functionality!

See Section 4 of $GALAHAD/doc/fit.pdf for a brief description of the method employed and other details.

functions

fit.initialize()

Set default option values and initialize private data.

Returns:

optionsdict

dictionary containing default control options:

errorint

error and warning diagnostics occur on stream error.

outint

general output occurs on stream out.

print_levelint

the level of output required is specified by print_level.

space_criticalbool

if space_critical is True, every effort will be made to use as little space as possible. This may result in longer computation times.

deallocate_error_fatalbool

if deallocate_error_fatal is True, any array/pointer deallocation error will terminate execution. Otherwise, computation will continue.

prefixstr

all output lines will be prefixed by the string contained in quotes within prefix, e.g. ‘word’ (note the qutoes) will result in the prefix word.

[optional] fit.information()

Provide optional output information.

Returns:

informdict

dictionary containing output information:

statusint

the return status. Possible values are:

• 0

  The fit was successful.

• -1

  An allocation error occurred. A message indicating the offending array is written on unit options[‘error’], and the returned allocation status and a string containing the name of the offending array are held in inform[‘alloc_status’] and inform[‘bad_alloc’] respectively.

• -2

  A deallocation error occurred. A message indicating the offending array is written on unit options[‘error’] and the returned allocation status and a string containing the name of the offending array are held in inform[‘alloc_status’] and inform[‘bad_alloc’] respectively.

• -3

  The restriction n > 0 has been violated.

alloc_statusint

the status of the last attempted allocation/deallocation.

bad_allocstr

the name of the array for which an allocation/deallocation error occurred.

fit.finalize()

Deallocate all internal private storage.