featurebyte.Target.str.slice

slice(

start: Optional[int]=None,

stop: Optional[int]=None,

step: Optional[int]=None

) -> Target

Description

Slices substring from each string element.

Parameters

• start: Optional[int]
  Starting position for slice operation.
  
  
• stop: Optional[int]
  Ending position for slice operation.
  
  
• step: Optional[int]
  Step size for slice operation (only size 1 is supported)
  
  

Returns

• Target
  A new Target object.
  
  

Raises

• ValueError
  When the step size is neither None nor 1.
  
  

Examples

Slice the first 10 characters from the ProductGroupLookup target:

>>> target = catalog.get_target("ProductGroupLookup")
>>> target["ProductGroupSlice"] = target.str.slice(0, 10)