libSBML Python API
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This class of objects is defined by libSBML only and has no direct equivalent in terms of SBML components. This class is not prescribed by the SBML specifications, although it is used to implement features defined in SBML.
The SBMLReader class provides the main interface for reading SBML content from files and strings. The methods for reading SBML all return an SBMLDocument object representing the results. In the case of failures (such as if the SBML contains errors or a file cannot be read), the errors will be recorded with the SBMLErrorLog object kept in the SBMLDocument returned by SBMLReader. Consequently, immediately after calling a method on SBMLReader, callers should always check for errors and warnings using the methods for this purpose provided by SBMLDocument.
For convenience as well as easy access from other languages besides C++, this file also defines two global functions, readSBML() and readSBMLFromString(). They are equivalent to creating an SBMLReader object and then calling the SBMLReader.readSBML() and SBMLReader.readSBMLFromString() methods, respectively.
LibSBML provides support for reading (as well as writing) compressed SBML files. The process is transparent to the calling application—the application does not need to do anything deliberate to invoke the functionality. If a given SBML filename ends with an extension for the gzip, zip or bzip2 compression formats (respectively, .gz,
.zip, or
.bz2), then the methods SBMLReader.readSBML() and SBMLWriter.writeSBML() will automatically decompress and compress the file while reading and writing it. If the filename has no such extension, it will be read and written uncompressed as normal.
The compression feature requires that the zlib (for gzip and zip formats) and/or bzip2 (for bzip2 format) be available on the system running libSBML, and that libSBML was configured with their support compiled-in. Please see the libSBML installation instructions for more information about this. The methods hasZlib() and hasBzip2() can be used by an application to query at run-time whether support for the compression libraries is available in the present copy of libSBML.
Support for compression is not mandated by the SBML standard, but applications may find it helpful, particularly when large SBML models are being communicated across data links of limited bandwidth.
Public Member Functions | |
def | __init__ (self) |
Creates a new SBMLReader object and returns it. More... | |
def | hasBzip2 () |
Static method; returns True if this copy of libSBML supports bzip2 format compression. More... | |
def | hasZlib () |
Static method; returns True if this copy of libSBML supports gzip and zip format compression. More... | |
def | readSBML (self, filename) |
Reads an SBML document from the given file. More... | |
def | readSBMLFromFile (self, filename) |
Reads an SBML document from the given file. More... | |
def | readSBMLFromString (self, xml) |
Reads an SBML document from a text string. More... | |
def libsbml.SBMLReader.__init__ | ( | self | ) |
Creates a new SBMLReader object and returns it.
__init__() SBMLReader
The libSBML SBMLReader object offers methods for reading SBML in XML form from files and text strings.
def libsbml.SBMLReader.hasBzip2 | ( | ) |
Static method; returns True
if this copy of libSBML supports bzip2 format compression.
hasBzip2() bool
True
if libSBML is linked with the bzip2 libraries, False
otherwise.def libsbml.SBMLReader.hasZlib | ( | ) |
Static method; returns True
if this copy of libSBML supports gzip and zip format compression.
hasZlib() bool
True
if libSBML has been linked with the zlib library, False
otherwise.def libsbml.SBMLReader.readSBML | ( | self, | |
filename | |||
) |
Reads an SBML document from the given file.
readSBML(string filename) SBMLDocument
If the file named filename
does not exist or its content is not valid SBML, one or more errors will be logged with the SBMLDocument object returned by this method. Callers can use the methods on SBMLDocument such as SBMLDocument.getNumErrors(), SBMLDocument.getNumErrors() and SBMLDocument.getError() to get the errors. The object returned by SBMLDocument.getError() is an SBMLError object, and it has methods to get the error code, category, and severity level of the problem, as well as a textual description of the problem. The possible severity levels range from informational messages to fatal errors; see the documentation for SBMLError for more information.
If the file filename
could not be read, the file-reading error will appear first. The error code can provide a clue about what happened. For example, a file might be unreadable (either because it does not actually exist or because the user does not have the necessary access privileges to read it) or some sort of file operation error may have been reported by the underlying operating system. Callers can check for these situations using a program fragment such as the following:
'
.gz' (for example, 'myfile.xml.gz'
), the file is assumed to be compressed in gzip format and will be automatically decompressed upon reading. Similarly, if the given filename ends with '
.zip' or '
.bz2', the file is assumed to be compressed in zip or bzip2 format (respectively). Files whose names lack these suffixes will be read uncompressed. Note that if the file is in zip format but the archive contains more than one file, only the first file in the archive will be read and the rest ignored.This method is identical to SBMLReader.readSBMLFromFile().
filename | the name or full pathname of the file to be read. |
filename
.def libsbml.SBMLReader.readSBMLFromFile | ( | self, | |
filename | |||
) |
Reads an SBML document from the given file.
readSBMLFromFile(string filename) SBMLDocument
If the file named filename
does not exist or its content is not valid SBML, one or more errors will be logged with the SBMLDocument object returned by this method. Callers can use the methods on SBMLDocument such as SBMLDocument.getNumErrors(), SBMLDocument.getNumErrors() and SBMLDocument.getError() to get the errors. The object returned by SBMLDocument.getError() is an SBMLError object, and it has methods to get the error code, category, and severity level of the problem, as well as a textual description of the problem. The possible severity levels range from informational messages to fatal errors; see the documentation for SBMLError for more information.
If the file filename
could not be read, the file-reading error will appear first. The error code can provide a clue about what happened. For example, a file might be unreadable (either because it does not actually exist or because the user does not have the necessary access privileges to read it) or some sort of file operation error may have been reported by the underlying operating system. Callers can check for these situations using a program fragment such as the following:
'
.gz' (for example, 'myfile.xml.gz'
), the file is assumed to be compressed in gzip format and will be automatically decompressed upon reading. Similarly, if the given filename ends with '
.zip' or '
.bz2', the file is assumed to be compressed in zip or bzip2 format (respectively). Files whose names lack these suffixes will be read uncompressed. Note that if the file is in zip format but the archive contains more than one file, only the first file in the archive will be read and the rest ignored.This method is identical to SBMLReader.readSBML().
filename | the name or full pathname of the file to be read. |
filename
.def libsbml.SBMLReader.readSBMLFromString | ( | self, | |
xml | |||
) |
Reads an SBML document from a text string.
readSBMLFromString(string xml) SBMLDocument
This method is flexible with respect to the presence of an XML declaration at the beginning of the string. In particular, if the string in xml
does not begin with the XML declaration
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
then this method will automatically prepend the declaration to xml
.
This method will log a fatal error if the content given in the parameter xml
is not in SBML format. See the method documentation for SBMLReader.readSBML() for an example of code for testing the returned error code.
xml | a string containing a full SBML model. |
xml
is None
.