Remove the dead `cell_connection_shim` from the python wrapper.

Fix the connection printer to take an `arb::cell_connection` argument, to fix a runtime python crash caused by passing an `arb::cell_connection` where a `cell_connection_shim` was expected.

akuesters authored 5 years ago and Benjamin Cumming committed 5 years ago

Add docs for Python wrapper to ReadTheDocs:

- Overview, Common Types, Hardware Management, Recipes, Domain Decomposition, Simulations, Metering
- Installing Arbor: Optional Requirements (Python), Buidling and Installing (Python Frontend), and Installation (Python Module)

Missing (, since not implemented yet): 

- probes
- arbor-sup 
- hint maps in domain_decomposition
- reset, events, empty schedule in event_generator
Also does not cover unit testing (since doc is user-centric).

Makes also defaults and units in wrapper consistent.

Fixes  #766

Support for recording spikes generated by a simulation in the Python wrapper
* Implement a `spike_recorder` that holds a shared pointer to a `std::vector` of spikes, and a callback for the `arb::simulation` spike recording API.
* Add `python/example/ring.py` that creates a ring network, then records and prints spikes.
* Some fixes to get the full `recipe` -> `domain_decomposition` -> `simulation` -> `spikes` workflow to work
  * always use default `global_parameters`: user customization of global parameters for cable cells can wait until the ion species interface is finished.
  * change the Python recipe interface for `recipe::connections_on` to use `pybind11::objects` because of shim.
* Some small improvements to error and help messages.

Fixes #764 

Fixes #782 
* consistent formatting of strings returned by `__repr__` and `__str__` for wrapped types
* rename enum wrappers to be less verbose, where it makes sense.

Add full wrappers for

- `lif_cell`
- `spike_source_cell`
- `benchmark_cell

And an opaque wrapper for cable_cell with a helper function that generates a random morphology identical to the ones in the nsuite benchmarks.

Fixes #767.

akuesters authored 5 years ago and Benjamin Cumming committed 5 years ago

Domain decomposition in python wrapper
* functions: `partition_load_balance`
*  types: `group_description` and `domain_decomposition`

Also includes
* remove comment that `gid` in a `group_description` must be sorted.
* a host of small clean ups of python wrapper

Fixes #761

akuesters authored 5 years ago and Benjamin Cumming committed 5 years ago

Fixes #760

Wraps arbor recipe (without probes, i.e. num_probes, probe_info, get_probe) including 

- cell_connection, 
- gap_junction_connection, 
- recipe with
  - num_cells
  - cell_description
  - cell_kind
  - num_sources
  - num_targets
  - num_gap_junctions_sites
  - event_generators
  - connections_on
  - gap_junctions_on
  - global_properties
- enum cell_kind in `identifiers.cpp`