larray.ndtest¶

larray.ndtest(shape_or_axes, start=0, label_start=0, title=None, dtype=<class 'int'>, meta=None)[source]¶

Returns test array with given shape.

Axes are named by single letters starting from ‘a’. Axes labels are constructed using a ‘{axis_name}{label_pos}’ pattern (e.g. ‘a0’). Values start from start increase by steps of 1.

Parameters

shape_or_axesint, tuple/list of int, str, single axis or tuple/list/AxisCollection of axes: If int or tuple/list of int, represents the shape of the array to create. In that case, default axes are generated. If string, it is used to generate axes (see AxisCollection constructor).
startint or float, optional: Start value
label_startint, optional: Label index for each axis is label_start + position. label_start defaults to 0.
titlestr, optional: Deprecated. See ‘meta’ below.
dtypetype or np.dtype, optional: Type of resulting array.
metalist of pairs or dict or OrderedDict or Metadata, optional: Metadata (title, description, author, creation_date, …) associated with the array. Keys must be strings. Values must be of type string, int, float, date, time or datetime.

Returns

LArray

Examples

Create test array by passing a shape

>>> ndtest(6)
a  a0  a1  a2  a3  a4  a5
    0   1   2   3   4   5
>>> ndtest((2, 3))
a\b  b0  b1  b2
 a0   0   1   2
 a1   3   4   5
>>> ndtest((2, 3), label_start=1)
a\b  b1  b2  b3
 a1   0   1   2
 a2   3   4   5
>>> ndtest((2, 3), start=2)
a\b  b0  b1  b2
 a0   2   3   4
 a1   5   6   7
>>> ndtest((2, 3), dtype=float)
a\b   b0   b1   b2
 a0  0.0  1.0  2.0
 a1  3.0  4.0  5.0

Create test array by passing axes

>>> ndtest("nat=BE,FO;sex=M,F")
nat\sex  M  F
     BE  0  1
     FO  2  3
>>> nat = Axis("nat=BE,FO")
>>> sex = Axis("sex=M,F")
>>> ndtest([nat, sex])
nat\sex  M  F
     BE  0  1
     FO  2  3