EdgeFrame take

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take(self, n, offset=0, columns=None)

Get data subset.

Parameters:

n : int

The number of rows to copy to the client from the frame.

offset : int (default=0)

The number of rows to skip before starting to copy

columns : str | iterable of str (default=None)

If not None, only the given columns’ data will be provided. By default, all columns are included

Returns:

: list

A list of lists, where each contained list is the data for one row.

Take a subset of the currently active Frame.

Notes

The data is considered ‘unstructured’, therefore taking a certain number of rows, the rows obtained may be different every time the command is executed, even if the parameters do not change.

Examples

Frame my_frame accesses a frame with millions of rows of data. Get a sample of 5000 rows:

>>> my_data_list = my_frame.take( 5000 )

We now have a list of data from the original frame.

>>> print my_data_list

[[ 1, "text", 3.1415962 ]
 [ 2, "bob", 25.0 ]
 [ 3, "weave", .001 ]
 ...]

If we use the method with an offset like:

>>> my_data_list = my_frame.take( 5000, 1000 )

We end up with a new list, but this time it has a copy of the data from rows 1001 to 5000 of the original frame.