Expression

class hail.expr.Expression

Base class for Hail expressions.

Attributes

dtype

The data type of the expression.

Methods

collect	Collect all records of an expression into a local list.
describe	Print information about type, index, and dependencies.
export	Export a field to a text file.
show	Print the first few records of the expression to the console.
summarize	Compute and print summary information about the expression.
take	Collect the first n records of an expression.

__eq__(other)

Returns True if the two expressions are equal.

Examples

>>> x = hl.literal(5)
>>> y = hl.literal(5)
>>> z = hl.literal(1)

>>> hl.eval(x == y)
True

>>> hl.eval(x == z)
False

Notes

This method will fail with an error if the two expressions are not of comparable types.

Parameters:

other (Expression) – Expression for equality comparison.

Returns:

BooleanExpression – True if the two expressions are equal.

__ge__(other)

Return self>=value.

__gt__(other)

Return self>value.

__le__(other)

Return self<=value.

__lt__(other)

Return self<value.

__ne__(other)

Returns True if the two expressions are not equal.

Examples

>>> x = hl.literal(5)
>>> y = hl.literal(5)
>>> z = hl.literal(1)

>>> hl.eval(x != y)
False

>>> hl.eval(x != z)
True

Notes

This method will fail with an error if the two expressions are not of comparable types.

Parameters:

other (Expression) – Expression for inequality comparison.

Returns:

BooleanExpression – True if the two expressions are not equal.

collect(_localize=True)

Collect all records of an expression into a local list.

Examples

Collect all the values from C1:

>>> table1.C1.collect()
[2, 2, 10, 11]

Warning

Extremely experimental.

Warning

The list of records may be very large.

Returns:

list

describe(handler=<built-in function print>)

Print information about type, index, and dependencies.

property dtype

The data type of the expression.

Returns:

HailType

export(path, delimiter='\t', missing='NA', header=True)

Export a field to a text file.

Examples

>>> small_mt.GT.export('output/gt.tsv')
>>> with open('output/gt.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
locus   alleles 0       1       2       3
1:1     ["A","C"]       0/1     0/0     0/1     0/0
1:2     ["A","C"]       1/1     0/1     0/1     0/1
1:3     ["A","C"]       0/0     0/1     0/0     0/0
1:4     ["A","C"]       0/1     1/1     0/1     0/1

>>> small_mt.GT.export('output/gt-no-header.tsv', header=False)
>>> with open('output/gt-no-header.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
1:1     ["A","C"]       0/1     0/0     0/1     0/0
1:2     ["A","C"]       1/1     0/1     0/1     0/1
1:3     ["A","C"]       0/0     0/1     0/0     0/0
1:4     ["A","C"]       0/1     1/1     0/1     0/1

>>> small_mt.pop.export('output/pops.tsv')
>>> with open('output/pops.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
sample_idx      pop
0       1
1       2
2       2
3       2

>>> small_mt.ancestral_af.export('output/ancestral_af.tsv')
>>> with open('output/ancestral_af.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
locus   alleles ancestral_af
1:1     ["A","C"]       3.8152e-01
1:2     ["A","C"]       7.0588e-01
1:3     ["A","C"]       4.9991e-01
1:4     ["A","C"]       3.9616e-01

>>> small_mt.bn.export('output/bn.tsv')
>>> with open('output/bn.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
bn
{"n_populations":3,"n_samples":4,"n_variants":4,"n_partitions":4,"pop_dist":[1,1,1],"fst":[0.1,0.1,0.1],"mixture":false}

Notes

For entry-indexed expressions, if there is one column key field, the result of calling str() on that field is used as the column header. Otherwise, each compound column key is converted to JSON and used as a column header. For example:

>>> small_mt = small_mt.key_cols_by(s=small_mt.sample_idx, family='fam1')
>>> small_mt.GT.export('output/gt-no-header.tsv')
>>> with open('output/gt-no-header.tsv', 'r') as f:
...     for line in f:
...         print(line, end='')
locus   alleles {"s":0,"family":"fam1"} {"s":1,"family":"fam1"} {"s":2,"family":"fam1"} {"s":3,"family":"fam1"}
1:1     ["A","C"]       0/1     0/0     0/1     0/0
1:2     ["A","C"]       1/1     0/1     0/1     0/1
1:3     ["A","C"]       0/0     0/1     0/0     0/0
1:4     ["A","C"]       0/1     1/1     0/1     0/1

Parameters:

• path (str) – The path to which to export.

• delimiter (str) – The string for delimiting columns.

• missing (str) – The string to output for missing values.

• header (bool) – When True include a header line.

show(n=None, width=None, truncate=None, types=True, handler=None, n_rows=None, n_cols=None)

Print the first few records of the expression to the console.

If the expression refers to a value on a keyed axis of a table or matrix table, then the accompanying keys will be shown along with the records.

Examples

>>> table1.SEX.show()
+-------+-----+
|    ID | SEX |
+-------+-----+
| int32 | str |
+-------+-----+
|     1 | "M" |
|     2 | "M" |
|     3 | "F" |
|     4 | "F" |
+-------+-----+

>>> hl.literal(123).show()
+--------+
| <expr> |
+--------+
|  int32 |
+--------+
|    123 |
+--------+

Notes

The output can be passed piped to another output source using the handler argument:

>>> ht.foo.show(handler=lambda x: logging.info(x))  

Parameters:

• n (int) – Maximum number of rows to show.

• width (int) – Horizontal width at which to break columns.

• truncate (int, optional) – Truncate each field to the given number of characters. If None, truncate fields to the given width.

• types (bool) – Print an extra header line with the type of each field.

summarize(handler=None)

Compute and print summary information about the expression.

Danger

This functionality is experimental. It may not be tested as well as other parts of Hail and the interface is subject to change.

take(n, _localize=True)

Collect the first n records of an expression.

Examples

Take the first three rows:

>>> table1.X.take(3)
[5, 6, 7]

Warning

Extremely experimental.

Parameters:

n (int) – Number of records to take.

Returns:

list