Source code for brian2.core.namespace

'''
Implementation of the namespace system, used to resolve the identifiers in
model equations of `NeuronGroup` and `Synapses`
'''

import collections
import inspect
import itertools

from brian2.utils.logger import get_logger
from brian2.units.fundamentalunits import (standard_unit_register,
                                           additional_unit_register)
from brian2.units.stdunits import stdunits
from brian2.core.functions import DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS, DEFAULT_CONSTANTS

__all__ = ['get_local_namespace',
           'DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS',
           'DEFAULT_UNITS',
           'DEFAULT_CONSTANTS']

logger = get_logger(__name__)


[docs]def get_local_namespace(level): ''' Get the surrounding namespace. Parameters ---------- level : int, optional How far to go back to get the locals/globals. Each function/method call should add ``1`` to this argument, functions/method with a decorator have to add ``2``. Returns ------- namespace : dict The locals and globals at the given depth of the stack frame. ''' # Get the locals and globals from the stack frame frame = inspect.currentframe() for _ in range(level + 1): frame = frame.f_back # We return the full stack here, even if it contains a lot of stuff we are # not interested in -- it is cheaper to later raise an error when we find # a specific object with an incorrect type instead of going through this big # list now to check the types of all objects return dict(itertools.chain(frame.f_globals.items(), frame.f_locals.items()))
def _get_default_unit_namespace(): ''' Return the namespace that is used by default for looking up units when defining equations. Contains all registered units and everything from `brian2.units.stdunits` (ms, mV, nS, etc.). Returns ------- namespace : dict The unit namespace ''' namespace = collections.OrderedDict(standard_unit_register.units) namespace.update(stdunits) # Include all "simple" units from additional_units, i.e. units like mliter # but not "newton * metre" namespace.update(dict((name, unit) for name, unit in additional_unit_register.units.items() if not unit.iscompound)) return namespace DEFAULT_UNITS = _get_default_unit_namespace()