Dictionary of agents by type

[kulkarnipreetam]

Hi,

I have multiple agent types in my model. I wanted to know if there is a way to access a dictionary by agent types in which the agent's unique id is the key and the agent instance (memory address) is the value so that I can use the agent's unique id to access the attributes of the agent?

This is similar to what a "who" number with "ask" statement would do in Netlogo. The reason I need this is because if I have agents of type A and B, I need to process agent A's data (agents filtered/sorted based on an attribute) in agent B's functions/methods.

Thank you :)

[kulkarnipreetam]

I found this...
self.schedule.agents_by_type["Agent class name"]

[EwoutH]

Sorry for not getting back to you, it seems we all missed it.

In Mesa there's a function get_agents_of_type() that gives you an AgentSet with all the agents of a certain type.

mesa/mesa/model.py

Lines 107 to 109 in 3cf1b76

	def get_agents_of_type(self, agenttype: type[Agent]) -> AgentSet:
	"""Retrieves an AgentSet containing all agents of the specified type."""
	return AgentSet(self.agents_[agenttype].keys(), self)

Let me know if that helps!