import copy
[docs]class Issuer:
"""
The issuer represents a person, object or something that produced an
utterance. Technically the issuer can be used to group utterances
that came from the same source.
Args:
idx (str): An unique identifier for this issuer within a dataset.
info (dict): Any additional info for this issuer as dict.
Attributes:
Issuer.utterances (list): List of utterances that this issuer owns.
"""
__slots__ = ['idx', 'info', 'utterances']
def __init__(self, idx, info=None):
self.idx = idx
self.info = info or {}
self.utterances = set()
def __str__(self):
return 'Issuer(idx={0}, info={1})'.format(self.idx, self.info)
def __copy__(self):
# self.utterances is ignored intentionally
# only a "weak-ref" when added to a corpus
cp = Issuer(
self.idx,
info=self.info
)
return cp
def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
# self.utterances is ignored intentionally
# only a "weak-ref" when added to a corpus
cp = Issuer(
self.idx,
info=copy.deepcopy(self.info, memo)
)
return cp