fastsubtrees 0.2

This library stores tree information in a read-only data structure which supports a fast query of the set of nodes in the subtree under a specified node.

The tree has the following structure: - each node is labeled by a unique positive integer ID - the largest node label shall not be much larger than the number of IDs

If the IDs are non-numerical or contain zero or negative numbers they must be first mapped to positive integers. Using non-unique IDs leads to undefined behaviour.

# Library API

Tree() is the main class of this package.

## Construction of the tree representation

To construct the tree representation, information about the nodes of the tree and their parent node is required.

Tree.construct_from_csv(filename, separator, elem_field_num, parent_field_num) allows to construct the Tree() object from a tabular file, with no header, fields separated by separator and the 0-based numbers of the nodes their parents in the fields specified by elem_field_num and parent_field_num.

Alternatively, an iterator or generator can be passed to Tree.construct(generator) which should yield pairs of values (ID of each node and the corresponding parent node ID).

## Saving and loading from file

The tree representations can be stored to file using the instance method tree.to_file(filename) and re-loaded from such a file using the class method Tree.from_file(filename).

## List of IDs of a subtree

The list of IDs of a subtree whose root is node n is obtained using the instance method: tree.subtree_ids(n).

The return value is an instance of array containing unsigned long long values (it can be used as a Python list for most purposes, and converted to a list if needed).

## Verbosity

The progress bars are enabled by setting fastsubtrees.PROGRESS_ENABLED to True (by default the value is False). The log messages can be activated by using fastsubtrees.enable_logger(“INFO”) and the debug messages by fastsubtrees.enable_logger(“DEBUG”) (by default the logger is disabled).

# Scripts

The script bin/fastsubtrees-construct constructs the tree representation from a tabular file.

The script bin/fastsubtrees-query loads a tree representation from file and performs a subtree IDs query.