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, **kwargs)

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.