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Add userdict
in PyNEST to let users store custom data with the kernel
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userdict
in nestuserdict
in in PyNEST to let users store custom data with the kernel
@babsey: I think this should also be documented somewhere. Probably by just adding a docstring to the variable. The documentation should also contain an example of how this would be used. @heplesser: do you think |
That's pity that this PR is rejected. From my perspective, it was the easiest solution to find the communication between I want to highlight the concept of this PR and describe these two usecases: In NRP we want to get spikes from 8 nodes for the robot brain. In CoSim, we want to record spikes for the transfer to other tools like TVB or Arbor.
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I apologize. I misunderstood during the VC meeting. I will discuss with CoSim and NRP people if they also acknowledge this changes. |
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@heplesser: can you please quickly have a look at this? This feature is required externally and given the smallness of the changeset I think we should be able to quickly decide...
userdict
in in PyNEST to let users store custom data with the kerneluserdict
in PyNEST to let users store custom data with the kernel
This PR adds the variable
userdict
in nest.This feature is useful to store and transfer metadata via NEST Server
This can be applied for NEST_Desktop-NRP and NEST_Desktop / CoSim-NEST-TVB usecases.