More information about containers

The Module object is defined as a named Parameters container. Its naming is stored within its mod_name attribute. For instance, the example shown in this section may be rewritten as:

import Config.Core as cepgen
module = cepgen.Parameters(mod_name = 'my_first_module', foo = 'bar')

or, using standard Python containers:

module = {
    'mod_name': 'my_first_module',
    'foo': 'bar'
}

Among the features introduced by these two objects, one may quote the capability of deep-cloning one while changing one or several attributes in one pass. For instance, using the former definition of module:

module_bis = module.clone('my_cloned_module',
    foo2 = 42,
    foo3 = cepgen.Parameters(
        nestedFoo = 'nestedBar',
    )
)

is equivalent to defining a module_bis container as:

module_bis = cepgen.Module('my_cloned_module',
    foo = 'bar',
    foo2 = 42,
    foo3 = cepgen.Parameters(
        nestedFoo = 'nestedBar',
    ),
)