Data Instance (instance)¶

Class Instance represents a data instance, typically retrieved from a Orange.data.Table or Orange.data.sql.SqlTable. The base class contains a copy of the data; modifying does not change the data in the storage from which the instance was retrieved. Derived classes (e.g. Orange.data.table.RowInstance) can represent views into various data storages, therefore changing them actually changes the data.

Like data tables, every data instance is associated with a domain and its data is split into attributes, classes, meta attributes and the weight. Its constructor thus requires a domain and, optionally, data. For the following example, we borrow the domain from the Iris dataset.

>>> from Orange.data import Table, Instance
>>> iris = Table("iris")
>>> inst = Instance(iris.domain, [5.2, 3.8, 1.4, 0.5, "Iris-virginica"])
>>> inst
[5.2, 3.8, 1.4, 0.5 | Iris-virginica]
>>> inst0 = Instance(iris.domain)
>>> inst0
[?, ?, ?, ? | ?]


The instance’s data can be retrieved through attributes x, y and metas.

>>> inst.x
array([ 5.2,  3.8,  1.4,  0.5])
>>> inst.y
array([ 2.])
>>> inst.metas
array([], dtype=object)


>>> inst.get_class()