Discrepancy between count and returned entities

[Ahmedjjj]

Hello,

Thank you for your work on the library !

I think there might be an issue either from the parlement api or from the library. Basically the returned count is different from the number of entities. Here are the steps to reproduce:

import swissparlpy as spp
person = spp.get_data("Person")
print(person.count)
print(len(person.entities))

Result:

18170
1000

Any Idea why this is the case?

Thanks!

[metaodi]

Yes this is by design: the data is lazy loaded when it's requested, so at first not all 18170 entries in your example are loaded.

If you use len(person) the correct number should be returned. As soon as an element is used for the first time the actual data is loaded.