Remote Objects

class skillbridge.client.objects.RemoteObject

RemoteObject instances represent any object in Skill that is neither of the following types:

__getattr__()

Skill properties can be accessed like normal python attributes, provided the property exists on the Skill object

>>> cell = ws.ge.get_edit_cell_view()
[[0, 10], [0, 10]]

Properties of Skill objects can again be RemoteObject instances:

>>> cell.cell_view
<remote object db:0xHHHHHH @....>
__setattr__()

It is also possible to change the Skill properties using normal python attribute access. If the property does not exist on the skill side, it will be created.

>>> cell.x = 123
>>> cell.x
123

Note

Changes to list are not synchronized with the Skill side at the moment

>>> cell.data = [1, 2, 3]
>>> cell.data.append(4)
>>> cell.data
[1, 2, 3]

To work around this, you must manually assign the list back to the object

>>> data = cell.data
>>> data.append(4)
>>> cell.data = data
>>> cell.data
[1, 2, 3, 4]

Warning

Creating new boolean properties on the Skill side show a strange behaviour

>>> cell.new_bool_property = True
>>> cell.new_bool_property
"TRUE"  # instead of t

>>> cell.new_bool_property = False
>>> cell.new_bool_property
"FALSE"  # instead of nil
__dir__()

All available Skill properties can be listed using this method. It looks up the properties inside skill using the expression __var -> ? and returns the property names as a list

>>> dir(cell)
['DBUPerUU', 'any_inst_count', 'area_boundaries', 'assoc_text_displays', ...]

Inside Jupyter/IPython this method is used to provide tab completion

>>> cell.<TAB>
# Shows a dropdown menu containing ['DBUPerUU', 'any_inst_count', ...]

>>> cell?
# Shows a window containing ['DBUPerUU', 'any_inst_count', ...]
__eq__()

Compares two RemoteObject and returns whether they are considered equal. They are considered equal if the Skill identifiers are equal.

cell = ws.ge.get_edit_cell_view()  # dbobject:0xHHHHHHH
another = ws.ge.get_edit_cell_view()  # dbobject:0xHHHHHH

assert cell == another
__ne__()

Compares two RemoteObject and returns whether they are consideren unequal. This is the opposite of the __eq__() method.