Equivalent of Deep Copy in Python Macro Design

egedursun · November 2019

Hi Matthias,

What is the proper way of copying a cell so that it does not share the same instance with the other one?

Thank you.

Matthias · November 2019

Hi,

The method is "Cell#copy_tree":

ly = ... # a pya.Layout
new_cell = ly.create_cell("NEW_CELL")
new_cell.copy_tree(ly.cell("ORIGINAL_CELL"))

This will create a copy of "ORIGINAL_CELL" in "NEW_CELL" with all the subcells duplicated.

Matthias

egedursun · November 2019

Thanks Matthias. It worked well!

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