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A VLType instance is used to describe a variable length (VLEN) data type.
Constructor: VLType(group, datatype, datatype_name)
VLType instances should be created using the createVLType method of a Dataset or Group instance, not using this class directly.
Parameters:
group
- Group instance to associate with the VLEN datatype.
datatype
- An numpy dtype object describing a the
component type for the variable length array.
datatype_name
- a Python string containing a
description of the VLEN data type.
Returns:
a VLType
instance, which can be passed to the createVariable
method
of a Dataset or Group instance.
The instance variables dtype
and name
should
not be modified by the user.
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dtype An object describing the VLEN type. |
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name A python string describing the VLEN type. |
Method Details |
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature
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