cirq.MeasurementKey

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A class representing a Measurement Key.

cirq.MeasurementKey(
    name: str, path: Tuple[str, ...] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=tuple)
)

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Wraps a string key. If you just want the string measurement key, simply call str() on this.

Args
name	The string representation of the key.
path	The path to this key in a circuit. In a multi-level circuit (one with repeated or nested subcircuits), we need to differentiate the keys that occur multiple times. The path is used to create such fully qualified unique measurement key based on where it occurs in the circuit. The path is outside-to-in, the outermost subcircuit identifier appears first in the tuple.

Attributes
name	Dataclass field
path	Dataclass field

Methods

parse_serialized

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@classmethod
parse_serialized(
    key_str: str
) -> 'MeasurementKey'

Parses the serialized string representation of Measurementkey into a MeasurementKey.

This is the only way to construct a MeasurementKey from a nested string representation (where the path is joined to the key name by the MEASUREMENT_KEY_SEPARATOR)

replace

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replace(
    **changes
) -> 'MeasurementKey'

Returns a copy of this MeasurementKey with the specified changes.

with_key_path_prefix

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with_key_path_prefix(
    *path_component
)

Adds the input path component to the start of the path.

Useful when constructing the path from inside to out (in case of nested subcircuits), recursively.

__eq__

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__eq__(
    other
) -> bool

Return self==value.

__le__

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__le__(
    other
)

Return self<=value.

__lt__

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__lt__(
    other
)

Return self<value.