pointprocess does not know its own type/name

[eacheon]

Using

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 p = neuron.new_point_process('ExpSyn') 

I can get the name of p by access name attribute. But since neuron.new_point_process is becoming obsolete, from the correspondent usage

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a = h.ExpSyn(0.5, sec = dend))
nc = h.NetCon(stim, a)

I cannot get the name (or type) of a (as an ExpSyn):

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>> a.__str__()
>> '<hoc.HocObject object at 0x892bef8>'

>> a.__repr__()
>> '<hoc.HocObject object at 0x892bef8>'

Strangely, "print a" gives

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>> print a
ExpSyn[3]

But redirect stdio doesn't work (doesn't give me a str 'ExpSyn[3]'), could HocObject, especially PointProcess object has an attribute that stores its own type/name?

[hines]

you can work around the problem with

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s = h.ref('')
h.sprint(s, '%s', a)
print s[0]

you can put the idiom in a
def hocObjectName(hocobject):
and return a tuple of (classname, index) if you find that useful

[hines]

See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1759
In the future, one would find the type information for a HocObject instance with
a.hname()