Quellcode für qiskit.providers.options

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"""Container class for backend options."""

import types


class Options(types.SimpleNamespace):
    """Base options object

    This class is the abstract class that all backend options are based
    on. The properties of the class are intended to be all dynamically
    adjustable so that a user can reconfigure the backend on demand. If a
    property is immutable to the user (eg something like number of qubits)
    that should be a configuration of the backend class itself instead of the
    options.
    """

    def update_options(self, **fields):
        """Update options with kwargs"""
        self.__dict__.update(fields)

    def get(self, field, default=None):
        """Get an option value for a given key."""
        return getattr(self, field, default)