# resolution_columns

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        <td style="text-align: left; border-style: hidden">*function*  of [dascore.core._spool_inventory](`dascore.core._spool_inventory`)</td>
        <td style="text-align: right; border-style: hidden">[source](https://github.com/DASDAE/dascore/blob/dev/dascore/core/_spool_inventory.py#L263-L277)</td>
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<b>resolution_columns</b>(<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;frame: DataFrame
,<br>
)-> 'list | None'


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Return the columns a relation resolves against an inventory with.

Resolution needs an identity and the instants to resolve it at, so a
relation missing either gets None here. A spool whose patches carry no
`acquisition_key` has no identity to offer, and one whose time axis
is not physical — lag times from a correlation, say — has no
instants, which is the same thing `Patch.enrich` refuses to guess at.