bw2io.extractors.ecospold1_lcia

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Ecospold1LCIAExtractor

Extract impact assessment methods and weightings data from ecospold XML format.

class bw2io.extractors.ecospold1_lcia.Ecospold1LCIAExtractor

Bases: object

Extract impact assessment methods and weightings data from ecospold XML format.

Attributes:

None

Methods:

extract: Extracts data from an ecospold XML file. parse_method: Parses the ecospold XML dataset to extract information. parse_cf: Parses an ecospold XML data element to extract characterization factor information.

classmethod extract(path)

Extracts ecospold XML file data.

Parameters

pathstr

The path to the ecospold XML file or directory.

Returns

list

A list of dictionaries with the extracted information.

classmethod parse_cf(cf)

Parse a cf object and extract relevant data.

Parameters

cfdict

A dictionary of cf data.

Returns

dict

A dictionary of parsed cf data.

Raises

TypeError

If ‘cf’ is not a dictionary.

Notes

This method expects ‘cf’ to contain the following keys: - meanValue (float): the amount - category (str): the category - subCategory (str, optional): the subcategory, if any - name (str): the name - unit (str): the unit of the amount

If subCategory is not provided, it will default to None.

classmethod parse_method(ds, filepath)

Parse and extract information from an ecospold XML dataset.

Parameters

dsobject

The XML dataset.

filepathstr

The path to the XML file.

Returns

dict

A dictionary of the information extracted from the ecospold XML dataset.