Atn

class understand.Atn

Bases: object

An Understand annotation

Annotations can be obtained for a database (understand.Db.annotations()) or for an entity (understand.Ent.annotations()).

Methods Summary

author	Return the author who created the annotation.
date	Return the date the annotation was last modified.
ent	Return the entity this annotation belongs to.
line	Return the line number if applicable.
text	Return the text of the annotation.

Methods Documentation

author() → str

Return the author who created the annotation.

Return type:

str

Returns:

the author

date() → str

Return the date the annotation was last modified.

Return type:

str

Returns:

the date time as a string of the form YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS such as 2000-01-01T19:20:30.

ent() → understand.Ent

Return the entity this annotation belongs to.

Return type:

understand.Ent

Returns:

the entity this annotation belongs to or None if the annotation is orphaned.

line() → int

Return the line number if applicable.

Return type:

int

Returns:

the line number (in the file) of the annotation or -1 if the annotation is not a line annotation.

text() → str

Return the text of the annotation.

Return type:

str

Returns:

the annotation text