# Command: statusdict

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Name:

    statusdict - dictionary with platform dependent status
      information.

Description:

      The status dictionary contains various platform dependend status
      information. Among others, it contains the following useful things:

      argv	 arraytype   full list of commandline arguments given to NEST
      userargs   arraytype   user supplied arguments, usable by scripts
      interactive booltype   does this NEST session read its commands from an interactive prompt?
      files	 arraytype   list of files to execute, as specified on the commandline
      prgdatadir  stringtype  path to the installation directory
      prgdocdir   stringtype  path to the documentation directory

      have_mpi   booltype   this flag is always defined and indicates whether an
      MPI library is available to the NEST system or not.
      The flag does not indicate whether the interpreter
      actually has MPI support.
      is_mpi	 booltype   this flag may not be defined if the interpreter does not
      have MPI support. If the value of the flag is true, the
      interpreter has support for parallel computing.

      View the whole contents of the status dictionary with 'statusdict info'.

SeeAlso:

- info
- LocateFileNames
- searchifstream
- searchfile

Source:

    /opt/conda/conda-bld/nest_1510212701067/work/nest-2.14.0/lib/sli/sli-init.sli

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