simplify process for initializing cell-to-cell connections about hnn-core

[rythorpe]

is there still stuff to do here after #164 ?

Nope, I think you covered it! Thanks @jasmainak!

[jasmainak]

I would love to discuss this. +100, I literally had the same issue the other day wrapping my head around these methods

[blakecaldwell]

Agreed! The reason that it was moved out of Network was because it used _PC. However, moving to _Cell with a from .neuron import _PC inside the function sounds great.

[rythorpe]

Agreed! The reason that it was moved out of Network was because it used _PC. However, moving to _Cell with a from .neuron import _PC inside the function sounds great.

I think it's a great policy to keep all hoc references out of Network - good call @blakecaldwell. We should definitely try to maintain this moving forward. Should we anticipate encountering any pickling or parallelization errors by moving this _PC reference to _Cell?

[blakecaldwell]

Should we anticipate encountering any pickling or parallelization errors by moving this _PC reference to _Cell?

We should be fine. _PC is already imported in cell.py and existing functions heavily rely on h. objects.

[jasmainak]

is there still stuff to do here after #164 ?