larray.AxisCollection.get

AxisCollection.get(key, default=None, name=None) → Axis[source]

Return axis corresponding to key. If not found, the argument name is used to create a new Axis. If name is None, the default axis is then returned.

Parameters

keykey: Key corresponding to an axis of the current AxisCollection.
defaultaxis, optional: Default axis to return if key doesn’t correspond to any axis of the collection and argument name is None.
namestr, optional: If key doesn’t correspond to any axis of the collection, a new Axis with this name is created and returned.

Examples

>>> age = Axis(range(20), 'age')
>>> sex = Axis('sex=M,F')
>>> time = Axis([2007, 2008, 2009, 2010], 'time')
>>> col = AxisCollection([age, time])
>>> col.get('time')
Axis([2007, 2008, 2009, 2010], 'time')
>>> col.get('sex', sex)
Axis(['M', 'F'], 'sex')
>>> col.get('nb_children', None, 'nb_children')
Axis(1, 'nb_children')