Search for live DeviceElement and QuantumDevice instances
Explanation of changes
Makes sure that when you instantiate a device element of a quantum device in quantify, you can re-connect to live DeviceElement and QuantumDevice instruments.
Motivation of changes
With this metaclass, if you rerun a cell in a notebook it will never complain that a qubit or quantum device with that name already exists.
Merge checklist
See also merge request guidelines
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Merge request has been reviewed (in-depth by a knowledgeable contributor), and is approved by a project maintainer. -
New code is covered by unit tests (or N/A). -
New code is documented and docstrings use numpydoc format (or N/A). -
New functionality: considered making private instead of extending public API (or N/A). -
Public API changed: added @deprecated
and entry in deprecated code suggestions (or N/A). -
Newly added/adjusted documentation and docstrings render properly (or N/A). -
Pipeline fix or dependency update: post in #software-for-developers
channel to mergemain
back in or update local packages (or N/A). -
Tested on hardware (or N/A). -
CHANGELOG.md
andAUTHORS.md
have been updated (or N/A). -
Update Hardware backends documentation if backend interface change or N/A -
Performance tests: if changes can affect performance, trigger CI manually and evaluate results (or N/A). -
Windows tests in CI pipeline pass (manually triggered by maintainers before merging). - Maintainers do not hit Auto-merge, we need to actively check as manual tests do not block pipeline
For reference, the issues workflow is described in the contribution guidelines.
Edited by Thomas Middelburg