The ihm.dictionary
Python module¶
Classes to read in and represent an mmCIF extension dictionary
- class ihm.dictionary.Dictionary[source]¶
Representation of an mmCIF dictionary. See
read()
to create a Dictionary from a file.Multiple Dictionaries can be added together to yield a Dictionary that includes all the data in the original Dictionaries.
See the validator example for an example of using this class.
- linked_items¶
Links between items; keys are children, values are parents e.g.
linked_items['_ihm_starting_model_details.asym_id'] = '_struct_asym.id'
- validate(fh, format='mmCIF')[source]¶
Validate the given file against this dictionary.
- Parameters:
fh (file) – The file handle to read from.
format (str) – The format of the file. This can be ‘mmCIF’ (the default) for the (text-based) mmCIF format or ‘BCIF’ for BinaryCIF.
- Raises:
ValidatorError
if the file fails to validate.
- class ihm.dictionary.Category[source]¶
Representation of a single category in a
Dictionary
.- description¶
Human-readable text
- mandatory¶
True iff this category is required in a compliant mmCIF file
- name¶
Category name
- class ihm.dictionary.ItemType(name, primitive_code, construct)[source]¶
Represent the type of a data item. This keeps the set of valid strings for values of a given
Keyword
. For example, integer values can only contain the digits 0-9 with an optional +/- prefix.- property case_sensitive¶
True iff this type is case sensitive
- class ihm.dictionary.Keyword[source]¶
Representation of a single keyword in a
Category
.- enumeration¶
Set of acceptable values, or None
- mandatory¶
True iff this keyword is required in a compliant mmCIF file
- name¶
Keyword name
- ihm.dictionary.read(fh)[source]¶
Read dictionary data from the mmCIF file handle fh.
- Returns:
The dictionary data.
- Return type:
- exception ihm.dictionary.ValidatorError[source]¶
Exception raised if a file fails to validate. See
Dictionary.validate()
.