Hello,
I'm not sure you'll like all the things I've
done with your pypar, so any remark you've to
to, it's welcome.

My problem: I'm trying to do a little master-slave
parallel program with pypar, something like the
standard LAM one-step tutorial.
To do so, I've found that the actual pypar implementation
lacks of two things (please, please correct me if I'm wrong):

1. MPI constants in the pypar module (like MPI_ANY_SOURCE, MPI_ANY_TAG)
2. The capability to read the MPI_Status structure after
an MPI_Recv.

for 1. one can always stick the constant -1 inside the code
but for 2. I've found that the actual implementation doesn't export
MPI_Status to python.


So I've just modified mpi.c (and pypar.py, testpypar.py) to
1. export some MPI constants (trivial)
2. export MPI_Status structure members along with the error code, in a
"i(iiii)" (touple of an integer and a four-integer other touple) (ugly)
3. modify raw_receive methods accordingly (trivial again,
but pypar API slighty changes).


Even worse, I've modified an old mpi.c version (before bcat),
so please take into account this.

I've attached all the stuff (along with the ms.py demo program).
If you want to spend some time reviewing it, I'll be thankful.

Best Regards
/gp

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