lifecycles.LifeCycle.set_attributes

LifeCycle.set_attributes(attributes: dict, attr_name: str) → None

set the temporal attributes of the elements in the LifeCycle

The temporal attributes must be provided as a dictionary keyed by the element id and valued by a dictionary keyed by the temporal id and valued by the attribute value.

Parameters:

• attr_name – the name of the attribute

• attributes – a dictionary of temporal attributes

Returns:

None

Example:

>>> lc = LifeCycle()
>>> lc.add_partition([[1,2], [3,4,5]])
>>> lc.add_partition([[1,2,3], [4,5]])
>>> attributes = {
>>>     1: c{0: 'red', 1: 'blue'}, # element 1 is red at time 0 and blue at time 1
>>>     2: {0: 'green', 1: 'magenta'} # element 2 is green at time 0 and magenta at time 1
>>> }
>>> lc.set_attributes(attributes, attr_name="color")