Add a convenience func to retrieve the internal attr. hist.

A new function that can be imported to read the internal attribute history. The history is conveniently converted to a numpy.array.

What is missing: I could also extract the time stamps but did not know how to add that to the retrieved array. Could be done later.

lib/get_internal_attribute_history.py

+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+
+
+from tango import DeviceProxy
+from numpy import array, transpose
+
+
+def get_internal_attribute_history(device: DeviceProxy, attribute_name: str, depth: int = 10):
+    try:
+        history = array(device.attribute_history(attr_name = attribute_name, depth = depth))
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise ValueError("Cannot access the internal history of the attribute '{}/{}'.".format(device.name(), attribute_name)) from e
+
+    history_values = array([entry.value for entry in history])
+    history_values_transposed = history_values.transpose()
+    values = array([vals for vals in history_values_transposed])
+    return values

[Jan David Mol]

please change to values = array(list(history_values_transposed)) (assuming we really do have to go through a list here, isnt it all happy numpy wonderland already?)

[Thomas Juerges]

Will do and yes, it is hopefully all numpy.array already. But then I have learned that numpy sometimes does things in odd ways and wanted to be explicit. On second thought this could be a leftover from when I still had this function to just retrieve the rcu_temperature_r history. I'll look into it and get back to you about it.