Attribute

class corpustools.corpus.classes.lexicon.Attribute(name, att_type, display_name=None, default_value=None, is_default=False)

Attributes are for collecting summary information about attributes of Words or WordTokens, with different types of attributes allowing for different behaviour

Parameters

namestr

Python-safe name for using getattr and setattr on Words and WordTokens

att_typestr

Either ‘spelling’, ‘tier’, ‘numeric’ or ‘factor’

display_namestr

Human-readable name of the Attribute, defaults to None

default_valueobject

Default value for initializing the attribute

Attributes

namestring

Python-readable name for the Attribute on Word and WordToken objects

display_namestring

Human-readable name for the Attribute

default_valueobject

Default value for the Attribute. The type of default_value is dependent on the attribute type. Numeric Attributes have a float default value. Factor and Spelling Attributes have a string default value. Tier Attributes have a Transcription default value.

rangeobject

Range of the Attribute, type depends on the attribute type. Numeric Attributes have a tuple of floats for the range for the minimum and maximum. The range for Factor Attributes is a set of all factor levels. The range for Tier Attributes is the set of segments in that tier across the corpus. The range for Spelling Attributes is None.

Methods

__init__(name, att_type[, display_name, ...])
guess_type(values[, trans_delimiters])	Guess the attribute type for a sequence of values
sanitize_name(name)	Sanitize a display name into a Python-readable attribute name
update_range(value)	Update the range of the Attribute with the value specified.