access ports by alias

[joamatab]

Some times ref.ports['o1'] we have different port_names ref.ports['in0']

can we add something like?

ref.ports_by_alias['o1']

[95-martin-orion]

On a related note, it would be convenient for Ports to implement get, similar to dict.get.

[sebastian-goeldi]

@joamatab what I was thinking of is to do the following:

ref.ports.copy(rename_function) to give you a new Ports object. Now, the problem is that this will first apply the transformation of the instance. But I assume you want the naming scheme applied to the initial cell ports and not the transformed instance ports? In that case this will take a bit longer.

[sebastian-goeldi]

@95-martin-orion what would be the use case for a get? Sure it's not hard to implement, but I would like to know what would be the use case, as I struggle to see where that could ever be useful.

[sebastian-goeldi]

This has been implemented in the method mentioned above

[95-martin-orion]

@95-martin-orion what would be the use case for a get? Sure it's not hard to implement, but I would like to know what would be the use case, as I struggle to see where that could ever be useful.

This is primarily a consistency request: Ports already implements most of the functionality of dict, but not having get means that functions which operate on dicts will sometimes fail if applied to Ports. (I had an explicit example when I originally requested this, but I just got back from a month of vacation and can't recall where I left off...)