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 initialization parameters of a subclass.

See cfdm.core.NumpyArray for an example implementation.

New in version (cfdm): 1.7.0

Initialization

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 subtitutions.

_docstring_substitutions

Return the docstring substitutions that apply to methods of the given class.

_docstring_package_depth

Return the package depth, N, for {{package}} docstring substitutions for the given class.

_docstring_method_exclusions

Return the names of methods to exclude from docstring substitutions for the given class.