Proposed by Michael Auchter:
re: InitWithOptions option string
See page 83, http://www.ivifoundation.org/downloads/Architecture%20Specifications/IVI-3.2_Inherent_Capabilities_2017-02-07.pdf
There are a limited number of valid option string attributes:
RangeCheck (bool)
QueryInstrStatus (bool)
Cache (bool)
Simulate (bool)
RecordCoercions (bool)
InterchangeCheck (bool)
DriverSetup (string)
and these are expected to be specified as comma-separated "Name=Value" pairs. DriverSetup is special: it needs to be the last thing in the option string, and everything after the equals sign is passed to the driver. In practice, most (all?) MI drivers treat the DriverSetup as a semi-colon separated list of "Name:Value" pairs.
That's kind of a mess, and it's something I frequently get wrong.
I'd prefer to see these (well, specifically "Simulate" and "DriverSetup"; I doubt the others see much use) handled explicitly.
So. instead of:
niscope.Session(rsrc, option_string='Simulate=1,DriverSetup=Model:5162 (4CH);Bitfile:CustomProcessing')
Something like:
niscope.Session(rsrc, simulate=True, driver_setup={'Model': '5162 (4CH)', 'Bitfile': 'CustomProcessing'})
and have init take care of building up the correctly formatted option string for the driver's consumption.
Proposed by Michael Auchter:
re: InitWithOptions option string
See page 83, http://www.ivifoundation.org/downloads/Architecture%20Specifications/IVI-3.2_Inherent_Capabilities_2017-02-07.pdf
There are a limited number of valid option string attributes:
RangeCheck (bool)
QueryInstrStatus (bool)
Cache (bool)
Simulate (bool)
RecordCoercions (bool)
InterchangeCheck (bool)
DriverSetup (string)
and these are expected to be specified as comma-separated "Name=Value" pairs. DriverSetup is special: it needs to be the last thing in the option string, and everything after the equals sign is passed to the driver. In practice, most (all?) MI drivers treat the DriverSetup as a semi-colon separated list of "Name:Value" pairs.
That's kind of a mess, and it's something I frequently get wrong.
I'd prefer to see these (well, specifically "Simulate" and "DriverSetup"; I doubt the others see much use) handled explicitly.
So. instead of:
Something like:
and have init take care of building up the correctly formatted option string for the driver's consumption.