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Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 6:53 pm**

How can I access the segment area form Python?

For example, I have a hoc objet L2_PC[0] and the the following does not work

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>>> h.L2_PC[0].dend[14](0.1).area
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stdin", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'nrn.Segment' object has no attribute 'area'

I thought this is how the range variable should be accessed in Python

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sec(x).rangevar

What do I do wrong here?
Thanks

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2014 10:33 am**

area is not a range variable--it is a function. hoc usage is
area(x)
returns area of the segment in the currently accessed section that contains location x.

Try this example (assumes dend is a section with nseg == 5):

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for seg in dend:
  seg.diam = 10*seg.x

Then

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for seg in dend:
  print seg.x, seg.diam, h.area(seg.x)

returns

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0.1 1.0 62.8318530718
0.3 3.0 188.495559215
0.5 5.0 314.159265359
0.7 7.0 439.822971503
0.9 9.0 565.486677646

Posted: **Thu May 15, 2014 1:02 pm**

it works, thanks.

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