skbio.metadata.MetadataColumn.filter_ids

MetadataColumn.filter_ids(ids_to_keep)

Filter metadata column by IDs.

Parameters:

ids_to_keepiterable of str

IDs that should be retained in the filtered MetadataColumn object. If any IDs in ids_to_keep are not contained in this MetadataColumn object, a ValueError will be raised. The filtered MetadataColumn object will retain the same relative ordering of IDs in this MetadataColumn object. Thus, the ordering of IDs in ids_to_keep does not determine the ordering of IDs in the filtered MetadataColumn object.

Returns:

MetadataColumn

The metadata column filtered by IDs.

See also

get_ids