hyperspy.misc.export_dictionary module

hyperspy.misc.export_dictionary.export_to_dictionary(target, whitelist, dic, fullcopy=True)

Exports attributes of target from whitelist.keys() to dictionary dic All values are references only by default.

Parameters:

• target (object) – must contain the (nested) attributes of the whitelist.keys()

• whitelist (dictionary) –

  A dictionary, keys of which are used as attributes for exporting. Key ‘self’ is only available with tag ‘id’, when the id of the target is saved. The values are either None, or a tuple, where:

  • the first item a string, which containts flags, separated by commas.

  • the second item is None if no ‘init’ flag is given, otherwise the object required for the initialization.

  The flag conventions are as follows:

  • ’init’: object used for initialization of the target. The object is saved in the tuple in whitelist

  • ’fn’: the targeted attribute is a function, and may be pickled. A tuple of (thing, value) will be exported to the dictionary, where thing is None if function is passed as-is, and True if dill package is used to pickle the function, with the value as the result of the pickle.

  • ’id’: the id of the targeted attribute is exported (e.g. id(target.name))

  • ’sig’: The targeted attribute is a signal, and will be converted to a dictionary if fullcopy=True

• dic (dictionary) – A dictionary where the object will be exported

• fullcopy (bool) – Copies of objects are stored, not references. If any found, functions will be pickled and signals converted to dictionaries

hyperspy.misc.export_dictionary.load_from_dictionary(target, dic)

Loads attributes of target to dictionary dic The attribute list is read from dic[‘_whitelist’].keys()

Parameters:

• target (object) – must contain the (nested) attributes of the whitelist.keys()

• dic (dictionary) –

  A dictionary, containing field ‘_whitelist’, which is a dictionary with all keys that were exported, with values being flag strings. The convention of the flags is as follows:

  • ’init’: object used for initialization of the target. Will be copied to the _whitelist after loading

  • ’fn’: the targeted attribute is a function, and may have been pickled (preferably with dill package).

  • ’id’: the id of the original object was exported and the attribute will not be set. The key has to be ‘_id_’

  • ’sig’: The targeted attribute was a signal, and may have been converted to a dictionary if fullcopy=True

hyperspy.misc.export_dictionary.reconstruct_object(flags, value)

Reconstructs the value (if necessary) after having saved it in a dictionary