asq.record

Records provide a convenient anonymous class which can be useful for managing intermediate query results. new() provides a concise way to create Records in the middle of a query.

asq.record.Record

class asq.record.Record(**kwargs)

A class to which any attribute can be added at construction.

__init__(**kwargs)

Initialise a Record with an attribute for each keyword argument.

The attributes of a Record are mutable and may be read from and written to using regular Python instance attribute syntax.

Parameters:**kwargs – Each keyword argument will be used to initialise an attribute with the same name as the argument and the given value.

__repr__()

A valid Python expression string representation of the Record.

__str__()

A string representation of the Record.

asq.record.new

asq.record.new(**kwargs)

A convenience factory for creating Records.

Parameters:**kwargs – Each keyword argument will be used to initialise an attribute with the same name as the argument and the given value. Returns:A Record which has a named attribute for each of the keyword arguments.

Example

Create an employee and the get and set attributes:

>>> employee = new(age=34, sex='M', name='Joe Bloggs', scores=[3, 2, 9, 8])
>>> employee
Record(age=34, scores=[3, 2, 9, 8], name='Joe Bloggs', sex='M')
>>> employee.age
34
>>> employee.name
'Joe Bloggs'
>>> employee.age = 35
>>> employee.age
35