watex.utils.funcutils.make_ids#

watex.utils.funcutils.make_ids(arr, prefix=None, how='py', skip=False)[source]#

Generate auto Id according to the number of given sites.

Parameters:

arr – Iterable object to generate an id site . For instance it can be the array-like or list of EDI object that composed a collection of watex.edi.Edi object.
prefix (str) – string value to add as prefix of given id. Prefix can be the site name.
how – Mode to index the station. Default is ‘Python indexing’ i.e. the counting starts by 0. Any other mode will start the counting by 1.
skip (bool) – skip the long formatage. the formatage acccording to the number of collected file.

Returns:

ID number formated

Return type:

list

Example:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from watex.utils.func_utils import make_ids
>>> values = ['edi1', 'edi2', 'edi3']
>>> make_ids (values, 'ix')
... ['ix0', 'ix1', 'ix2']
>>> data = np.random.randn(20)
>>>  make_ids (data, prefix ='line', how=None)
... ['line01','line02','line03', ... , line20]
>>> make_ids (data, prefix ='line', how=None, skip =True)
... ['line1','line2','line3',..., line20]