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Posted: **Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:41 am**

Hi, could use some help with recording float variables. I have some existing .hoc-code I want to transfer to Python;

objref memirec,memireclist
proc set_imem_recorders() { //Arguments: timeres_python, len(tvec)
	memireclist = new List()
	//records passive and capacitive currents
	forsec allseclist {
		for (x,0) {		
	       	//add recorder for i_membrane to each pos(x)
				memirec = new Vector(size=$2)
				memirec.record(&i_membrane(x),$1)
				memireclist.append(memirec)			
			}
	}
}

I want to declare the same function in Python, but cannot locate some _ref_ for the i_membrane variable arising after inserting the extracellular mechanism, right now I have:

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def set_imem_recorders(self, tstopms):
        '''record membrane currents for all compartments'''
        memireclist = self.h.List()
        for seg in self.h.allseclist:
            memirec = self.h.Vector(size=tstopms/self.timeres_python+1)
            memirec.record(seg.i_membrane, self.timeres_python) #Doesn't work!!
            memireclist.append(memirec)

which do not work of course, since seg.i_membrane is a float. Any way I can do this properly? How can I find if there exist some h._ref_ for this or some other variable?

Posted: **Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:45 am**

Use:

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memirec.record(seg._ref_i_membrane, self.timeres_python)

However, your seg may not be a nrn.Segment object. I presume self.h.allseclist
is a Hoc List of Sections. So perhaps you need a nested loop like
for sec in self.h.allseclist:
for seg in sec:

Posted: **Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:00 am**

Thanks, that did the trick, so the following works:

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def set_imem_recorders(self, tstopms):
        '''record membrane currents for all compartments'''
        memireclist = self.h.List()
        for seg in self.h.allseclist:
            for sec in seg:
                memirec = self.h.Vector(size=tstopms/self.timeres_python+1)
                memirec.record(sec._ref_i_membrane(), self.timeres_python)
                memireclist.append(memirec)

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