Class CacheEntry

Intialize a CacheEntry object. The arguments can take two forms: a single string argument, which is interpreted and parsed as a line from a LAL cache file, or four arguments used to explicitly initialize the observatory, description, segment and URL in that order. When parsing a single line of text from a LAL cache, an optional key-word argument "coltype" can be provided to set the type the start and durations are parsed as. The default is lal.LIGOTimeGPS.

Example:

>>> c = CacheEntry("H1", "S5", segments.segment(815901601, 815902177.5), "file://localhost/home/kipp/tmp/1/H1-815901601-576.xml")
>>> print(c.segment)
[815901601 ... 815902177.5)
>>> print(str(c))
H1 S5 815901601 576.5 file://localhost/home/kipp/tmp/1/H1-815901601-576.xml
>>> c = CacheEntry("H1 S5 815901601 576.5 file://localhost/home/kipp/tmp/1/H1-815901601-576.xml")
>>> print(c.segment)
[815901601 ... 815902177.5)
>>> print(CacheEntry("H1 S5 815901601 576.5 file://localhost/home/kipp/tmp/1/H1-815901601-576.xml", coltype = float).segment)
[815901601.0 ... 815902177.5)

See also the .from_T050017() class method for an alternative initialization mechanism.

Overrides: object.__init__

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