qiskit.transpiler.Target.instruction_supported¶

Target.instruction_supported(operation_name=None, qargs=None, operation_class=None, parameters=None)[Quellcode]¶

Return whether the instruction (operation + qubits) is supported by the target

Parameter

operation_name (str) – The name of the operation for the instruction. Either this or operation_class must be specified, if both are specified operation_class will take priority and this argument will be ignored.
qargs (tuple) – The tuple of qubit indices for the instruction. If this is not specified then this method will return True if the specified operation is supported on any qubits. The typical application will always have this set (otherwise it’s the same as just checking if the target contains the operation). Normally you would not set this argument if you wanted to check more generally that the target supports an operation with the parameters on any qubits.
operation_class (qiskit.circuit.Instruction) – The operation class to check whether the target supports a particular operation by class rather than by name. This lookup is more expensive as it needs to iterate over all operations in the target instead of just a single lookup. If this is specified it will supersede the operation_name argument. The typical use case for this operation is to check whether a specific variant of an operation is supported on the backend. For example, if you wanted to check whether a RXGate was supported on a specific qubit with a fixed angle. That fixed angle variant will typically have a name different than the object’s name attribute ("rx") in the target. This can be used to check if any instances of the class are available in such a case.
parameters (list) –
A list of parameters to check if the target supports them on the specified qubits. If the instruction supports the parameter values specified in the list on the operation and qargs specified this will return True but if the parameters are not supported on the specified instruction it will return False. If this argument is not specified this method will return True if the instruction is supported independent of the instruction parameters. If specified with any Parameter objects in the list, that entry will be treated as supporting any value, however parameter names will not be checked (for example if an operation in the target is listed as parameterized with "theta" and "phi" is passed into this function that will return True). For example, if called with:
```
parameters = [Parameter("theta")]
target.instruction_supported("rx", (0,), parameters=parameters)
```
will return True if an RXGate is suporrted on qubit 0 that will accept any parameter. If you need to check for a fixed numeric value parameter this argument is typically paired with the operation_class argument. For example:
```
target.instruction_supported("rx", (0,), RXGate, parameters=[pi / 4])
```
will return True if an RXGate(pi/4) exists on qubit 0.

Rückgabe

Returns True if the instruction is supported and False if it isn’t.

Rückgabetyp

bool