Update options to be a mapping instead of a simple namespace#6355
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This commit changes the options class to be a mapping instead of a simple namespace. While we wanted to preserve attribute based access primarily the simple namespace is too limited in practice and involves a lot of hacking around the internals such as frequent calls to Options.__dict__ to get an iterator of fields in the options. To improve the usability of the class without breaking existing users this changes the base class to be a MutableMapping and adds the necessary methods to make it usable like a dict or a simple namespace.
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Ugh, it looks like this is breaking Aer in some way and because of how the |
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This commit changes the options class to be a mapping instead of a
simple namespace. While we wanted to preserve attribute based access
primarily the simple namespace is too limited in practice and involves a
lot of hacking around the internals such as frequent calls to
Options.__dict__to get an iterator of fields in the options. To improvethe usability of the class without breaking existing users this changes
the base class to be a
MutableMappingand adds the necessary methods tomake it usable like a dict or a simple namespace.
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