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Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Features
  • A note about version numbers
  • Copyright and license
  • Concepts
  • Installation
• Programming with PyDaF
  • Defining data types
    • PyDaF types from existing Python types
      • Wrapper definition
      • PyDaF wrappers
      • Using wrapped data units
    • Creating types manually
  • Manipulating data units
    • Accessing data units' metadata
    • Data unit descriptions
    • Collections
      • Creating and updating collections
      • Filtering collections
      • Named sub-collections
      • Other access methods
      • Metadata
    • Specifications
      • Creating specifications
      • Matching specifications
      • Specificity
  • Defining processors
    • Processor input
      • Specificity
    • Processing method
      • Guidelines
  • Running PyDaF code
    • Using the synchronous pipeline
    • Using the threaded pipeline
  • MapReduce helper class
    • Metadata
    • Splitting
    • Mapping
    • Reducing
• Full example
  • The Map/Reduce implementation
  • Pre-processing the parts
  • Final dictionary clean-up
  • Putting it all together