spydrnet.clone.clone

spydrnet.clone.clone(element)[source]

Clone any netlist objects

several premises hold while cloning

  • the object will be orphaned and not belong to any parent

  • the object will maintain internal structure with cloned objects

  • the names will be unchanged

  • external connections will mostly be severed

Properties

  • cloned using python’s built in deepcopy functionality.

  • expected to be string objects but if you store something else there make sure you override deepcopy on that object.

Instances have some special considerations

  • when cloned without the library containing the reference definition the instance will still point to the definition of it’s clone.

  • in the same case as the above point the references of the definition will be updated accordingly

  • when a library is cloned some of the instances may be defined in another library these instances will follow the premises above

  • instances defined and referenced in the cloned library will point to the cloned definition