Obsolete Pointer Functions¶ ↑

this_node()¶ ↑

Syntax:

h.this_node(x)
h.this_node(x, sec=section)

Description:: Return a pointer (coded as a double) to the segment of section that contains location x. If no section is specified, it uses the currently accessed section; see cas(). If you wish to compute a segment number index where 1 is the first nonzero area segment and nseg is the last nonzero area segment of the currently accessed section corresponding to position x use the hoc function

Warning

This function is useless and should be removed.

this_section()¶ ↑

Syntax:

h.this_section(x)

Description:: Return a pointer (coded as a double) to the section which contains location 0 of the currently accessed section. This pointer can be used as the argument to push_section(). Functions that return pointers coded as doubles are unsafe with 64 bit pointers. This function has been superseded by SectionRef and in Python the use of Section objects.