convert_collection¶

convert_collection(X, output_type)[source]¶

Convert from one of collections compatible data structure to another.

See aeon.utils.conversion.COLLECTIONS_DATA_TYPE for the list.

Parameters:

Xcollection: The input collection to be converted.
output_typestring: Name of the target collection data type, must be one of COLLECTIONS_DATA_TYPES.

Returns:

Xcollection: Data structure conforming to output_type.

Raises:

TypeError if: X np.ndarray but wrong dimension X is list but not of np.ndarray or pd.DataFrame X is a pd.DataFrame of non float primitives

Examples

>>> from aeon.utils.conversion import convert_collection
>>> from aeon.utils.validation import get_type
>>> X=convert_collection(np.zeros(shape=(10, 3, 20)), "np-list")
>>> type(X)
<class 'list'>
>>> get_type(X)
'np-list'