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FakeProvider

class qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeProvider

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Bases: ProviderV1

Fake provider containing fake V1 backends.

Only filtering backends by name is implemented. This class contains all fake V1 backends available in the qiskit.providers.fake_provider.

Deprecated since version 0.46.0

The class qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_provider.FakeProvider is deprecated as of qiskit 0.46.0. It will be removed in qiskit 1.0. This class has been migrated to the qiskit_ibm_runtime package. To migrate your code, run pip install qiskit-ibm-runtime and use from qiskit_ibm_runtime.fake_provider import FakeProviderExample instead of from qiskit.providers.fake_provider import FakeProviderExample.


Attributes

version

Default value: 1


Methods

backends

backends(name=None, **kwargs)

Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.

Parameters

Returns

a list of Backends that match the filtering

criteria.

Return type

list(opens in a new tab)[Backend]

get_backend

get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

Parameters

Returns

a backend matching the filtering.

Return type

Backend

Raises

QiskitBackendNotFoundError – if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.

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