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# encode_datum

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.encode_datum"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">encode\_datum</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">SCHEMA</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">datum</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">encoding</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L10545"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Returns an Avro binary or JSON encoded datum dict using its schema.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">SCHEMA (<span className="em">str or avro.Schema</span>) –</div>

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              <p>A parsed schema object from avro.schema.parse() or a string containing the schema.</p>
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            <div className="dt">datum (<span className="em">dict</span>) –</div>

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              <p>A dict of key-value pairs containing the data to encode (the entries must match the schema).</p>
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