Children class

(Shortest import: from brian2.spatialneuron.morphology import Children)

class brian2.spatialneuron.morphology.Children(owner)[source]

Bases: object

Helper class to represent the children (sub trees) of a section. Can be used like a dictionary (mapping names to Morphology objects), but iterates over the values (sub trees) instead of over the keys (names).

Methods

add(name, subtree[, automatic_name]) Add a new child to the morphology.
name(child) Return the given name (i.e.
remove(name) Remove a subtree from this morphology.

Details

add(name, subtree, automatic_name=False)[source]

Add a new child to the morphology.

Parameters:

name : str

The name (e.g. "axon", "soma") to use for this sub tree.

subtree : Morphology

The subtree to link as a child.

automatic_name : bool, optional

Whether to chose a new name automatically, if a subtree of the same name already exists (uses e.g. "dend2" instead "dend"). Defaults to False and will raise an error instead.

name(child)[source]

Return the given name (i.e. not the automatic name such as 1) for a child subtree.

Parameters:

child : Morphology

Returns:

name : str

The given name for the child.

remove(name)[source]

Remove a subtree from this morphology.

Parameters:

name : str

The name of the sub tree to remove.