anndata.experimental.read_elem

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anndata.experimental.read_elem#

anndata.experimental.read_elem(elem)[source]#

Read an element from a store.

Assumes that the element is encoded using the anndata encoding. This function will determine the encoded type using the encoding metadata stored in elem’s attributes.

Parameters:
elem StorageType

The stored element.

Return type:

Union[ndarray[Any, dtype[TypeVar(_ScalarType_co, bound= generic, covariant=True)]], MaskedArray, spmatrix, sparray, Dataset, Array, ZappyArray, BaseCompressedSparseDataset, DaskArray, CupyArray, CupySparseMatrix, Array, DataFrame, number, str, dict[str, RWAble], list[RWAble], AnnData, Categorical, ExtensionArray]