is possible to use isinstance() with Segment objects?

[Nin]

Hi everybody,

for debugging processes, I would like to test if an object passed as argument to a class is indeed a Segment. I though that checking it with isinstance() would be appropriate, but unfortunately this launches an error:

here a minimal example:

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from neuron import h

soma = h.Section(name = 'soma')
soma.nseg = 3
# a list of segments
soma_seg = [seg for seg in soma]

Before doing:

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stim = IClamp(soma_seg[1])

I would like to test if soma_seg[1] is a Segment...

but

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isinstance(soma_seg[1], h.Segment)

gives me

AttributeError: 'hoc.HocObject' object has no attribute 'Segment'

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance

[hines]

Segment and Section are actually part of an internal nrn module so to use is_instance on those
you need
import nrn
then

>>> isinstance(soma_seg[1], nrn.Segment)
True