miscellaneous.md

Miscellaneous

Raising a NEURON error

Use hoc_exec_error which takes two char* arguments (which can be NULL). e.g.

hoc_execerror("Message part 1", "Message part 2");

Note: all NEURON errors currently are received by Python as a RuntimeError exception, and all errors print their error messages before returning to Python, meaning that they will always print out, even inside a try/except block.

Checking if the name of an internal symbol

hoc_table_lookup(name, hoc_built_in_symlist) returns NULL if name not in the symlist; otherwise it returns the Symbol*