read_dimension

function of dascore.core.annotations

source

read_dimension(
    series: Series ,
    where: str = ““,
)-> ‘pd.Series’

Read a dimension column as the numbers or times its cells state.

Numbers are tried first because every datetime spelling this writes is an ISO string, which is not a number, while seconds from the epoch are a number a distance column would lose to a date. Times arriving at another resolution are held at nanoseconds, the resolution DASCore keeps them at, and a column holding neither numbers nor times is refused: a dimension is a coordinate, and the set’s own store would refuse to read it back. A duration is a coordinate too, and is read where the cells hold one. where names the source in the refusal.