packMatches¶
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lsst.afw.table.packMatches(matches)¶ Make a catalog of matches from a sequence of matches.
The catalog contains three fields: - first: the ID of the first source record in each match - second: the ID of the second source record in each match - distance: the distance of each match
- Parameters
- matches :
Sequence of matches, typically of type SimpleMatch, ReferenceMatch or SourceMatch. Each element must support:
first.getId()->int,second.getId()->intanddistance->float.
- Returns
- result :
The catalog of matches.
Notes
This pure python implementation exists as a historical artifact related to SWIG limitations. It might be practical to wrap the overloaded C++ functions with pybind11, but there didn’t seem much point.