cirq.qid_shape

Returns a tuple describing the number of quantum levels of each qubit/qudit/qid val operates on.

cirq.qid_shape(
    val: Any, default: TDefault = RaiseTypeErrorIfNotProvided
) -> Union[Tuple[int, ...], TDefault]

Used in the notebooks

Used in the tutorials

val The value to get the shape of.
default Determines the fallback behavior when val doesn't have a shape. If default is not set, a TypeError is raised. If default is set to a value, that value is returned.

If val has a _qid_shape_ method and its result is not NotImplemented, that result is returned. Otherwise, if val has a _num_qubits_ method, the shape with num_qubits qubits is returned e.g. (2,)*num_qubits. If neither method returns a value other than NotImplemented and a default value was specified, the default value is returned.

TypeError val doesn't have either a _qid_shape_ or a _num_qubits_ method (or they returned NotImplemented) and also no default value was specified.