liac-arff 1.1

A library for read and write ARFF files in Python

The liac-arff module implements functions to read and write ARFF files in Python.

Attribute Relationship File Format (ARFF ) is the text format file used by Weka to store data in a database. This module is an ARFF file handler based on other python parser modules (such json and yaml).

Features

• Read and Write ARFF files using python built-in structures;

• Supports NUMERIC, REAL, INTEGER, STRING and NOMINAL attribute types;

• Supports names with space;

• Read and Write the description of the file;

• MIT license;

Install

Via easy_install:

$ easy_install liac-arff

Manually:

$ python setup.py install

Usage

You can read an ARFF file as follows:

>>> import arff
>>> data = arff.load(open('wheater.arff', 'rb'))

Which results in:

>>> data
{
'attributes': [
    ('outlook', ['sunny', 'overcast', 'rainy']),
    ('temperature', 'REAL'),
    ('humidity', 'REAL'),
    ('windy', ['TRUE', 'FALSE']),
    ('play', ['yes', 'no'])],
'data': [
    ['sunny', 85.0, 85.0, 'FALSE', 'no'],
    ['sunny', 80.0, 90.0, 'TRUE', 'no'],
    ['overcast', 83.0, 86.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['rainy', 70.0, 96.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['rainy', 68.0, 80.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['rainy', 65.0, 70.0, 'TRUE', 'no'],
    ['overcast', 64.0, 65.0, 'TRUE', 'yes'],
    ['sunny', 72.0, 95.0, 'FALSE', 'no'],
    ['sunny', 69.0, 70.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['rainy', 75.0, 80.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['sunny', 75.0, 70.0, 'TRUE', 'yes'],
    ['overcast', 72.0, 90.0, 'TRUE', 'yes'],
    ['overcast', 81.0, 75.0, 'FALSE', 'yes'],
    ['rainy', 71.0, 91.0, 'TRUE', 'no']],
'description': u'',
'relation': 'weather'
}

You can write an ARFF file with this structure:

>>> print arff.dumps(data)
@RELATION weather

@ATTRIBUTE outlook {sunny, overcast, rainy}
@ATTRIBUTE temperature REAL
@ATTRIBUTE humidity REAL
@ATTRIBUTE windy {TRUE, FALSE}
@ATTRIBUTE play {yes, no}

@DATA
sunny,85.0,85.0,FALSE,no
sunny,80.0,90.0,TRUE,no
overcast,83.0,86.0,FALSE,yes
rainy,70.0,96.0,FALSE,yes
rainy,68.0,80.0,FALSE,yes
rainy,65.0,70.0,TRUE,no
overcast,64.0,65.0,TRUE,yes
sunny,72.0,95.0,FALSE,no
sunny,69.0,70.0,FALSE,yes
rainy,75.0,80.0,FALSE,yes
sunny,75.0,70.0,TRUE,yes
overcast,72.0,90.0,TRUE,yes
overcast,81.0,75.0,FALSE,yes
rainy,71.0,91.0,TRUE,no
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Contributors

• Nate Moseley (FinalDoom)

Project Page

https://github.com/renatopp/liac-arff