ak.Record#

Defined in awkward.highlevel on line 1772.

class ak.Record(self, data, *, behavior=None, with_name=None, check_valid=False, backend=None, attrs=None, named_axis=None)#
Parameters:

  • data (ak.record.Record, ak.Record, str, or dict) – Data to wrap or convert into a record. If a string, the data are assumed to be JSON. If a dict, calls ak.from_iter, which assumes all inner dimensions have irregular lengths.

  • behavior (None or dict) – Custom ak.behavior for this Record only.

  • with_name (None or str) – Gives the record type a name that can be used to override its behavior (see below).

  • check_valid (bool) – If True, verify that the layout is valid.

  • backend (None, "cpu", "jax", "cuda") – If "cpu", the Array will be placed in main memory for use with other "cpu" Arrays and Records; if "cuda", the Array will be placed in GPU global memory using CUDA; if "jax", the structure is copied to the CPU for use with JAX. if None, the data are left untouched.

High-level record that can contain fields of any type.

Most users won’t be creating Records manually. This class primarily exists to be overridden in the same way as ak.Array.

Records can be used in Numba: they can be passed as arguments to a Numba-compiled function or returned as return values. The only limitation is that they cannot be created inside the Numba-compiled function; to make outputs, consider ak.ArrayBuilder.

See also ak.Array and ak.behavior.

ak.Record.__init_subclass__(cls)#
ak.Record._update_class(self)#
ak.Record.attrs#

The mapping containing top-level metadata, which is serialised with the record during pickling.

Keys prefixed with @ are identified as “transient” attributes which are discarded prior to pickling, permitting the storage of non-pickleable types.

ak.Record.layout#

The ak.record.Record that contains composable ak.contents.Content elements to determine how the array is structured.

See ak.Array.layout for a more complete description.

The ak.record.Record is not a subclass of ak.contents.Content in Python and it is not composable with them: ak.record.Record contains one ak.contents.RecordArray (which is a ak.contents.Content), but ak.contents.Content nodes cannot contain a ak.record.Record.

A ak.record.Record is not an independent entity from its ak.contents.RecordArray; it’s really just a marker indicating which element to select. The XML representation reflects that:

>>> vectors = ak.Array([{"x": 0.1, "y": 1.0, "z": 30.0},
...                     {"x": 0.2, "y": 2.0, "z": 20.0},
...                     {"x": 0.3, "y": 3.0, "z": 10.0}])
>>> vectors[1].layout
<Record at='1'>
    <array><RecordArray is_tuple='false' len='3'>
        <content index='0' field='x'>
            <NumpyArray dtype='float64' len='3'>[0.1 0.2 0.3]</NumpyArray>
        </content>
        <content index='1' field='y'>
            <NumpyArray dtype='float64' len='3'>[1. 2. 3.]</NumpyArray>
        </content>
        <content index='2' field='z'>
            <NumpyArray dtype='float64' len='3'>[30. 20. 10.]</NumpyArray>
        </content>
    </RecordArray></array>
</Record>
ak.Record.behavior#

The behavior parameter passed into this Record’s constructor.

  • If a dict, this behavior overrides the global ak.behavior.

    Any keys in the global ak.behavior but not this behavior are still valid, but any keys in both are overridden by this behavior. Keys with a None value are equivalent to missing keys, so this behavior can effectively remove keys from the global ak.behavior.

  • If None, the Record defaults to the global ak.behavior.

See ak.behavior for a list of recognized key patterns and their meanings.

ak.Record.positional_axis#
ak.Record.named_axis#
ak.Record.tolist(self)#

Converts this Record into Python objects; same as ak.to_list (but without the underscore, like NumPy’s tolist).

ak.Record.to_list(self)#

Converts this Record into Python objects; same as ak.to_list.

ak.Record.nbytes#

The total number of bytes in all the ak.index.Index, and ak.contents.NumpyArray buffers in this array tree.

It does not count buffers that must be kept in memory because of ownership, but are not directly used in the array. Nor does it count the (small) Python objects that reference the (large) array buffers.

ak.Record.fields#

List of field names or tuple slot numbers (as strings) of this record.

If this is actually a tuple its fields are string representations of integers, such as "0", "1", "2", etc.

See also ak.fields.

ak.Record.is_tuple#

If True, the top-most record structure has no named fields, i.e. it’s a tuple.

ak.Record._ipython_key_completions_(self)#
ak.Record.__iter__ = None#
ak.Record.type#

The high-level type of this Record; same as ak.type.

Note that the outermost element of a Record’s type is always an ak.types.ScalarType, which .

The type of a ak.record.Record (from ak.Array.layout) is not wrapped by an ak.types.ScalarType.

ak.Record.typestr#

The high-level type of this Record, presented as a string.

ak.Record.__getitem__(self, where)#
Parameters:

where (many types supported; see below) – Index of positions to select from this Record.

Select items from the Record using an extension of NumPy’s (already quite extensive) rules.

See ak.Array.__getitem__ for a more complete description. Since this is a record, the first item in the slice tuple must be a string, selecting a field.

For example, with

>>> record = ak.Record({"x": 3.3, "y": [1, 2, 3]})

we can select

>>> record["x"]
3.3
>>> record["y"]
<Array [1, 2, 3] type='3 * int64'>
>>> record["y", 1]
2
ak.Record.__setitem__(self, where, what)#
Parameters:

  • where (str or tuple of str) – Field name to add data to the record.

  • what – Data to add as the new field.

For example:

>>> record = ak.Record({"x": 3.3})
>>> record["y"] = 4
>>> record["z"] = {"another": "record"}
>>> record.show()
{x: 3.3,
 y: 4,
 z: {another: 'record'}}

See ak.with_field for a variant that does not change the ak.Record in-place. (Internally, this method uses ak.with_field, so performance is not a factor in choosing one over the other.)

ak.Record.__delitem__(self, where)#
Parameters:

where (str or tuple of str) – Field name to remove from the record.

For example:

>>> record = ak.Record({"x": 3.3, "y": {"this": 10, "that": 20}})
>>> del record["y", "that"]
>>> record.show()
{x: 3.3,
 y: {this: 10}}

See ak.without_field for a variant that does not change the ak.Record in-place. (Internally, this method uses ak.without_field, so performance is not a factor in choosing one over the other.)

ak.Record.__getattr__(self, where)#

Whenever possible, fields can be accessed as attributes.

For example, the fields of

>>> record = ak.Record({"x": 1.1, "y": [2, 2], "z": "three"})

can be accessed as

>>> record.x
1.1
>>> record.y
<Array [2, 2] type='2 * int64'>
>>> record.z
'three'

which are equivalent to record["x"], record["y"], and record["z"].

Fields can’t be accessed as attributes when

  • ak.Record methods or properties take precedence,

  • a domain-specific behavior has methods or properties that take

    precedence, or

  • the field name is not a valid Python identifier or is a Python

    keyword.

ak.Record.__setattr__(self, name, value)#
Parameters:

where (str) – Attribute name to set

Set an attribute on the record.

Only existing public attributes e.g. ak.Record.layout, or private attributes (with leading underscores), can be set.

Fields are not assignable to as attributes, i.e. the following doesn’t work:

record.z = new_field

Instead, always use ak.Record.__setitem__:

record["z"] = new_field

or ak.with_field:

record = ak.with_field(record, new_field, "z")

to add or modify a field.

ak.Record.__dir__(self)#

Lists all methods, properties, and field names (see __getattr__) that can be accessed as attributes.

ak.Record.__str__(self)#
ak.Record.__repr__(self)#
ak.Record._repr(self, limit_cols)#
ak.Record.show(self, limit_rows=20, limit_cols=80, type=False, named_axis=False, stream=STDOUT, *, formatter=None, precision=3)#
Parameters:

  • limit_rows (int) – Maximum number of rows (lines) to use in the output.

  • limit_cols (int) – Maximum number of columns (characters wide).

  • type (bool) – If True, print the type as well. (Doesn’t count toward number of rows/lines limit.)

  • stream (object with a ``write(str)`` method or None) – Stream to write the output to. If None, return a string instead of writing to a stream.

  • formatter (Mapping or None) – Mapping of types/type-classes to string formatters. If None, use the default formatter.

Display the contents of the array within limit_rows and limit_cols, using ellipsis (...) for hidden nested data.

The formatter argument controls the formatting of individual values, c.f. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.set_printoptions.html As Awkward Array does not implement strings as a NumPy dtype, the numpystr key is ignored; instead, a "bytes" and/or "str" key is considered when formatting string values, falling back upon "str_kind".

ak.Record._repr_mimebundle_(self, include=None, exclude=None)#
ak.Record.__array_ufunc__(self, ufunc, method, *inputs)#

Intercepts attempts to pass this Record to a NumPy universal functions (ufuncs) and passes it through the Record’s structure.

This method conforms to NumPy’s NEP 13 for overriding ufuncs, which has been available since NumPy 1.13 (and thus NumPy 1.13 is the minimum allowed version).

See ak.Array.__array_ufunc__ for a more complete description.

ak.Record.numba_type#

The type of this Record when it is used in Numba. It contains enough information to generate low-level code for accessing any element, down to the leaves.

See Numba documentation on types and signatures.

ak.Record.__reduce_ex__(self, protocol)#
ak.Record.__setstate__(self, state)#
ak.Record.__copy__(self)#
ak.Record.__deepcopy__(self, memo)#
ak.Record.__bool__(self)#