User manual
Section 13: Instrument Control Library (ICL)  Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual 
13-238  3700S-901-01 Rev. C / July 2008 
scan.list() 
Remarks 
This command will list out the existing scan list. 
If the scan list is empty, then the string "Empty Scan" is returned. Otherwise, the string 
will list each step in the scan along with its information for step, open, close, measure 
configuration, and count. For example, an existing scan list may appear as follows: 
Init) OPEN... 
1) STEP: 2007 
 CLOSE: 2007 
MEASURE: nofunction COUNT: 1 
2) STEP: 2008 
 OPEN: 2007 
  CLOSE: 2008 
MEASURE: nofunction COUNT: 1 
3) STEP: 2020 
 OPEN: 2008 
 CLOSE: 2020 2911 
MEASURE: dcvolts COUNT: 1 
4) STEP: 2021 
 OPEN: 2020 2911 
 CLOSE: 2021 2921 
MEASURE: dcvolts COUNT: 1 
5) STEP: 2016 
 OPEN: 2021 2921 
 CLOSE: 2016 2911 
MEASURE: mydcv1 COUNT: 1 
6) STEP: 2017 
 OPEN: 2016 
 CLOSE: 2017 
MEASURE: mydcv1 COUNT: 1 
7) OPEN: 2017 
Example 
To display the existing scan list: 
print(scan.list()) 










