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BasicProvider

class qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider

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Bases: ProviderV1

Provider for test simulators.

Deprecated since version 1.1

The class qiskit.providers.provider.Provider is deprecated as of qiskit 1.1. It will be removed no earlier than 3 months after the release date. The abstract Provider and ProviderV1 classes are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0. You can just remove it as the parent class and a get_backend method that returns the backends from self.backend.


Attributes

version

Default value: 1


Methods

backends

backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)

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Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.

Parameters

  • name (str) – name of the backend.
  • **kwargs – dict used for filtering.
  • filters (Callable | None) –

Returns

a list of Backends that match the filtering

criteria.

Return type

list[Backend]

get_backend

get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)

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Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

Deprecated since version 1.1

The method qiskit.providers.provider.ProviderV1.get_backend() is deprecated as of qiskit 1.1. It will be removed no earlier than 3 months after the release date. The abstract Provider and ProviderV1 classes are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0. You can just remove it as the parent class and a get_backend method that returns the backends from self.backend.

Parameters

  • name (str) – name of the backend.
  • **kwargs – dict used for filtering.

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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