PulseQobj
class qiskit.qobj.PulseQobj(qobj_id, config, experiments, header=None)
Bases: object
A Pulse Qobj.
Instantiate a new Pulse Qobj Object.
Each Pulse Qobj object is used to represent a single payload that will be passed to a Qiskit provider. It mirrors the Qobj the published Qobj specification for Pulse experiments.
The class qiskit.qobj.pulse_qobj.PulseQobj is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.2. It will be removed in the 2.0 release. The Qobj class and related functionality are part of the deprecated BackendV1 workflow, and no longer necessary for BackendV2. If a user workflow requires Qobj it likely relies on deprecated functionality and should be updated to use BackendV2.
Parameters
- qobj_id (str) – An identifier for the qobj
- config (PulseQobjConfig) – A config for the entire run
- header (QobjHeader) – A header for the entire run
- experiments (list) – A list of lists of
PulseQobjExperimentobjects representing an experiment
Methods
from_dict
classmethod from_dict(data)
Create a new PulseQobj object from a dictionary.
Parameters
data (dict) – A dictionary representing the PulseQobj to create. It will be in the same format as output by to_dict().
Returns
The PulseQobj from the input dictionary.
Return type
to_dict
to_dict()
Return a dictionary format representation of the Pulse Qobj.
Note this dict is not in the json wire format expected by IBMQ and qobj specification because complex numbers are still of type complex. Also this may contain native numpy arrays. When serializing this output for use with IBMQ you can leverage a json encoder that converts these as expected. For example:
import json
import numpy
class QobjEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
def default(self, obj):
if isinstance(obj, numpy.ndarray):
return obj.tolist()
if isinstance(obj, complex):
return (obj.real, obj.imag)
return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
json.dumps(qobj.to_dict(), cls=QobjEncoder)Returns
A dictionary representation of the PulseQobj object
Return type