How to change the magnetic value (i.e. angle for dipole) in a sequence? about cpymad

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EDIT: Sorry for being harsh.

For reference, here are the most relevant ways to achieve this. Assume, you have MAD-X elements, defined like this:

k1_qp1 = 1;
qp1: quadrupole, l=1, k1:=k1_qp1;
qp2: quadrupole, l=1, k1=1;
mul: multipole, knl={1, 1, 1};  ! a list

in MAD-X, you can change their values as follows:

K1_QP1 = 2;
qp2->k1 = 2;            ! also works for qp1
mul, knl={2, 2, 2};     ! this is the only method that works for lists
                        ! (but it also works for qp1,qp2 as well!)

where the syntax at the bottom is the most generic, i.e. can be used to modify the values for all cases, and the syntax in the middle can be used to modify either of the first two elements.

Now in cpymad, you have several options:

• you can use .input() to directly execute commands that would work in MAD-X itself, so if you know the MAD-X command, you can do in cpymad, e.g.:

m.input('k1_qp1 = 2;')
m.input('qp2->k1 = 2;')
m.input('mul, knl={2, 2, 2}')

• these commands can be executed more conveniently with cpymad methods:

m.set_value('k1_qp1', 2)
m.set_value('qp2->k1', 2)
m.command('mul', knl=[2, 2, 2])

• the global parameters are also accessible via the Madx.globals attribute, so the first case could alternatively be written as:

m.globals['k1_qp1'] = 2

• Also note that I have been planning for some time to create special support for this to cover all three cases in a more uniform and convenient manner, but this remains not implemented as of now, see #25.