skbio.tree.TreeNode.find#

TreeNode.find(name)[source]#

Find a node by name.

Parameters:

nameTreeNode or str: The name of the node to find. If a TreeNode object is provided, will find this particular node in the tree.

Returns:

TreeNode: The found node.

Raises:

MissingNodeError: If the node to be searched for is not found in the current tree.

See also

find_all
find_by_id
find_by_func

Notes

This method will first attempt to find the node in the tips. If it cannot find a corresponding tip, it will then search through the internal nodes of the tree. In practice, phylogenetic trees and other common trees in biology do not have unique internal node names. As a result, this find method will only return the first occurrence of an internal node encountered on a postorder traversal of the tree.

The first call of find will cache a node lookup table in the tree on the assumption that additional calls to find will be made. See details.

This method searches within the entire tree where self is located, regardless if self is the root node.

Examples

>>> from skbio import TreeNode
>>> tree = TreeNode.read(["((a,b)c,(d,e)f);"])
>>> node = tree.find('c')
>>> node.name
'c'