def get_subscript(self, sub_script_name):
        """
        finds the item that contains the sub_script with name sub_script_name
        Args:
            sub_script_name: name of subscript
        Returns: B26QTreeItem in QTreeWidget which is a script

        """

        # get tree of item
        tree = self.treeWidget()

        items = tree.findItems(sub_script_name, QtCore.Qt.MatchExactly | QtCore.Qt.MatchRecursive)

        if len(items) >= 1:
            # identify correct script by checking that it is a sub_element of the current script
            subscript_item = [sub_item for sub_item in items if isinstance(sub_item.value, Script)
                               and sub_item.parent() is self]

            subscript_item = subscript_item[0]
        else:
            raise ValueError('several elements with name ' + sub_script_name)


        return subscript_item