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George Ryall edited this page Mar 10, 2025 · 4 revisions

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genie_python now uses Python 3

Ticket #5175: genie_python will now run under Python 3.8 as opposed to 2.7. There are differences between python 2 and 3 which may mean that some scripts which worked under python 2 will no longer work under python 3. See here for further details.

genie_python now has a b. module containing block names.

Ticket #5401: genie_python now has a shortcut to block names b.<blockname>. This can be used wherever you would have used the name of a block - for example in a call to g.cset. It will also autocomplete in the scripting window. See post on forum: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:[email protected]/1592484373224?tenantId=3f66361c-a87e-4158-8f61-99e82db3cac8&groupId=b20b0859-14eb-4fa7-b221-c96ac1027927&parentMessageId=1592484373224&teamName=IBEX%20Users&channelName=Scripting&createdTime=1592484373224

Alarms on blocks are now recorded in nexus files

Ticket #4936: Alarm status of blocks is now put into the Nexus file and can be filtered by Mantid

The import mechanism for the inst module has changed

Ticket #5262: A new import mechanism for the inst module. We no longer try to do the equivalent of import * from *, instead functions need to be imported explicitly into the inst module.

This means that if you want a new function to be available in inst. you will need to update inst\__init__.py.

Instruments with very simple scripts now only have a single inst.py file instead of a module.

See here for further details.

Removal of the dummy argument from g.load_script

Ticket #5451: Remove the dummy argument from g.load_script. This will cause an error message if an old GUI runs with a new genie_python. It will break any user scripts where you have called load_script with more than one argument in a positional way.

Examples:

  • g.load_script("my_script.py", None, False, True) will be broken.
  • g.load_script("my_script.py") or g.load_script("my_script.py", check_script=False, warnings_as_error=True) will both be fine.

Removal of deprecated genie_python functions

Ticket #5457: The following functions have been removed from genie_python in favour of their change_ equivalents:

  • set_title (use change_title instead)
  • set_script_dir (use change_script_dir instead)
  • set_number_soft_periods (use change_number_soft_periods instead)
  • set_sample_par (use change_sample_par instead)
  • set_beamline_par (use change_beamline_par instead)
  • set_period (use change_period instead)

The following functions have been removed entirely:

  • check_lowlimit_against_highlimit
  • get_absolute_path
  • is_absolute
  • get_instrument_py_name.

The following functions have been moved into g.adv:

  • get_instrument (use g.adv.get_instrument instead)
  • set_messages_verbosity (use g.adv.set_messages_verbosity instead)

send_tcpip has been moved into the shared InstrumentScripts repository.

Linter performance

Improve the performance of the linter when repeatedly calling g.load_script() (https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5210)

Scripting window warns when opening multiple consoles

The scripting perspective now gives a confirmation dialog if you are opening multiple scripting windows. (https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5084)

Client performance

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