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mvpa2.base.state.Collection

class mvpa2.base.state.Collection(items=None, name=None)

Container of some IndexedCollectables.

XXX Seems to be not used and duplicating functionality: listing (thus listing property)

Initialize the Collection

Parameters :

items : dict of IndexedCollectable’s

items to initialize with

name : str

name of the collection (as seen in the owner, e.g. ‘ca’)

copy(*args, **kwargs)

Create a copy of a collection.

By default this is going to return a deep copy of the collection, hence no data would be shared between the original dataset and its copy.

Parameters :

deep : boolean, optional

If False, a shallow copy of the collection is return instead. The copy contains only views of the values.

a : list or None

List of attributes to include in the copy of the dataset. If None all attributes are considered. If an empty list is given, all attributes are stripped from the copy.

memo : dict

Developers only: This argument is only useful if copy() is called inside the __deepcopy__() method and refers to the dict-argument memo in the Python documentation.

is_set(key=None)

If item (or any in the present or listed) was set

Parameters :

key : None or str or list of str

What items to check if they were set in the collection

listing

Return a list of registered ca along with the documentation

reset(key=None)

Reset the conditional attribute defined by key

which_set()

Return list of keys which were set