cfdm.core.Array

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class cfdm.core.Array(source=None, copy=True)

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

source: optional

Convert source, which can be any type of object, to a Array instance.

All other parameters, apart from copy, are ignored and their values are instead inferred from source by assuming that it has the Array API. Any parameters that can not be retrieved from source in this way are assumed to have their default value.

Note that if x is also a Array instance then cfdm.core.Array(source=x) is equivalent to x.copy().

copy: bool, optional

If True (the default) then deep copy the input parameters prior to initialisation. By default the parameters are not deep copied.

Inspection

Attributes

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

Miscellaneous

Methods

copy	Return a deep copy of the array.

Special

Methods

__deepcopy__

Called by the copy.deepcopy function.

Docstring substitutions

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.