`CIFCategory`#

class biotite.structure.io.pdbx.CIFCategory(columns=None, name=None)[source]#

Bases: _Component, MutableMapping

This class represents a category in a CIFBlock.

Columns can be accessed and modified like a dictionary. The values are CIFColumn objects.

Parameters:

columnsdict, optional: The columns of the category. The keys are the column names and the values are the CIFColumn objects (or objects that can be coerced into a CIFColumn). By default, an empty category is created. Each column must have the same length.
namestr, optional: The name of the category. This is only used for serialization and is automatically set, when the CIFCategory is added to a CIFBlock. It only needs to be set manually, when the category is directly serialized.

Attributes:

namestr: The name of the category.
row_countint: The number of rows in the category, i.e. the length of each column.

Notes

When a column containing strings with line breaks are added, these strings are written as multiline strings to the CIF file.

Examples

>>> # Add column on creation
>>> category = CIFCategory({"fruit": ["apple", "banana"]}, name="fruits")
>>> # Add column later on
>>> category["taste"] = ["delicious", "tasty"]
>>> # Add column the formal way
>>> category["color"] = CIFColumn(CIFData(["red", "yellow"]))
>>> # Access a column
>>> print(category["fruit"].as_array())
['apple' 'banana']
>>> print(category.serialize())
loop_
_fruits.fruit
_fruits.taste
_fruits.color
apple  delicious red
banana tasty     yellow

static deserialize(text)#

Create this component by deserializing the given content.

Parameters:

contentstr or dict: The content to be deserialized. The type of this parameter depends on the file format. In case of CIF files, this is the text of the lines that represent this component. In case of BinaryCIF files, this is a dictionary parsed from the MessagePack data.

serialize()#

Convert this component into a Python object that can be written to a file.

Returns:

contentstr or dict: The content to be serialized. The type of this return value depends on the file format. In case of CIF files, this is the text of the lines that represent this component. In case of BinaryCIF files, this is a dictionary that can be encoded into MessagePack.

static subcomponent_class()#

Get the class of the components that are stored in this component.

Returns:

subcomponent_classtype: The class of the subcomponent. If this component already represents the lowest level, i.e. it does not contain subcomponents, None is returned.

static supercomponent_class()#

Get the class of the component that contains this component.

Returns:

supercomponent_classtype: The class of the supercomponent. If this component present already the highest level, i.e. it is not contained in another component, None is returned.

CIFCategory#

`CIFCategory`#