cfdm.core.Array

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class cfdm.core.Array(**kwargs)

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.

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.