Source code for pennylane.data.attributes.string

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"""Contains an DatasetAttribute for str objects."""


from typing import Tuple, Type

from pennylane.data.base.attribute import DatasetAttribute
from pennylane.data.base.hdf5 import HDF5Array, HDF5Group


[docs]class DatasetString(DatasetAttribute[HDF5Array, str, str]): """Attribute type for strings.""" type_id = "string"
[docs] @classmethod def consumes_types(cls) -> Tuple[Type[str]]: return (str,)
[docs] def hdf5_to_value(self, bind: HDF5Array) -> str: return bind.asstr()[()]
[docs] def value_to_hdf5(self, bind_parent: HDF5Group, key: str, value: str) -> HDF5Array: bind_parent[key] = value return bind_parent[key]