CodeRunner class

(Shortest import: from brian2 import CodeRunner)

class brian2.groups.group.CodeRunner(*args, **kw)

Bases: BrianObject

A “code runner” that runs a CodeObject every timestep and keeps a reference to the Group. Used in NeuronGroup for Thresholder, Resetter and StateUpdater.

On creation, we try to run the before_run method with an empty additional namespace (see Network.before_run). If the namespace is already complete this might catch unit mismatches.

Parameters:

group : Group

The group to which this object belongs.

template : Template

The template that should be used for code generation

code : str, optional

The abstract code that should be executed every time step. The update_abstract_code method might generate this code dynamically before every run instead.

dt : Quantity, optional

The time step to be used for the simulation. Cannot be combined with the clock argument.

user_code : str, optional

The abstract code as specified by the user, i.e. without any additions of internal code that the user not necessarily knows about. This will be used for warnings and error messages.

clock : Clock, optional

The update clock to be used. If neither a clock, nor the dt argument is specified, the defaultclock will be used.

when : str, optional

In which scheduling slot to execute the operation during a time step. Defaults to 'start'. See Scheduling for possible values.

order : int, optional

The priority of this operation for operations occurring at the same time step and in the same scheduling slot. Defaults to 0.

name : str, optional

The name for this object.

check_units : bool, optional

Whether the units should be checked for consistency before a run. Is activated (True) by default but should be switched off for state updaters (units are already checked for the equations and the generated abstract code might have already replaced variables with their unit-less values)

template_kwds : dict, optional

A dictionary of additional information that is passed to the template.

needed_variables: list of str, optional :

A list of variables that are neither present in the abstract code, nor in the USES_VARIABLES statement in the template. This is only rarely necessary, an example being a StateMonitor where the names of the variables are neither known to the template nor included in the abstract code statements.

override_conditional_write: list of str, optional :

A list of variable names which are used as conditions (e.g. for refractoriness) which should be ignored.

codeobj_class : class, optional

The CodeObject class to run code with. If not specified, defaults to the group’s codeobj_class attribute.

generate_empty_code : bool, optional

Whether to generate a CodeObject if there is no abstract code to execute. Defaults to True but should be switched off e.g. for a StateUpdater when there is nothing to do.

Methods

before_run(run_namespace)	Optional method to prepare the object before a run.
create_code_objects(run_namespace)
create_default_code_object(run_namespace)
update_abstract_code(run_namespace)	Update the abstract code for the code object.

Details

before_run(run_namespace)

Optional method to prepare the object before a run.

Called by Network.after_run before the main simulation loop starts.

create_code_objects(run_namespace)

create_default_code_object(run_namespace)

update_abstract_code(run_namespace)

Update the abstract code for the code object. Will be called in before_run and should update the CodeRunner.abstract_code attribute.

Does nothing by default.