cfdm.core.Array¶

class cfdm.core.Array(**kwargs)[source]¶

Bases: cfdm.core.abstract.container.Container

Abstract base class for a container of an array.

The form of the array is defined by the initialisation parameters of a subclass.

See cfdm.core.NumpyArray for an example implementation.

New in version (cfdm): 1.7.0

Initialisation

Parameters

kwargs: optional: Named parameters and their values that define the array.

Inspection¶

Attributes

`dtype`	Data-type of the data elements.
`ndim`	Number of array dimensions.
`shape`	Tuple of array dimension sizes.
`size`	Number of elements in the array.
`array`	Return an independent numpy array containing the data.

Methods

Return a deep copy of the array.

Methods

Called by the copy.deepcopy function.

Methods

`_docstring_special_substitutions`	Return the special docstring substitutions.
`_docstring_substitutions`	Returns the substitutions that apply to methods of the class.
`_docstring_package_depth`	Returns the class {{package}} substitutions package depth.
`_docstring_method_exclusions`	Returns method names excluded in the class substitutions.