Agents vs Agents_By_Type

[rboone2020]

Folks,

Your help in improving my understanding would be appreciated. If I use:

for agent in self.schedule.agents:

I get an iteration where "agent" is an agent in the scheduler as one would imagine. But if I use:

for agent in self.schedule.agents_by_type[Sheep]:

I instead get "agent" as an integer. The difference seems odd to me. I've used the first case and then a filter to get to sheep, say, but is there a more direct route?

Thanks

[rht]

schedule.agents_by_type is a dictionary of dictionaries. You will have to do this instead

for agent_id, agent in self.schedule.agents_by_type[Sheep].items():

[rboone2020]

OK, thanks. Never would have gotten that without your help.

[EwoutH]

For future reference, extensive work has been done on Agent management in Mesa. This should be a lot easier from the next release. See:

• Native support for multiple agent types #1894
• Introduce AgentSet class #1916