mario.get_database_profile(database=None)

Inspect registered database metadata without parsing or calculating data.

Parameters:

database (str or Database, optional) – Family name (e.g. "gloria"), or a parsed Database. Omit to return every known family, keyed by registry identifier.

Returns:

Database identity, native GHG definitions, parser compute presets and packaged concordance editions/variants. For a Database, also identify its selected GHG profile and native-set concordance availability.

Return type:

dict

Notes

Compute presets are parser-selected preferences, not the current session settings. Inspect mario.download_settings() for active settings. GHG API defaults do not establish the IPCC basis of already characterised source CO2eq rows. Returned dictionaries can be edited without changing the registries; existing registration and settings APIs remain authoritative.

import mario

all_families = mario.get_database_profile()
family = mario.get_database_profile("gloria")  # No database parse.
model = mario.get_database_profile(db)         # Same as db.database_profile.

The family view includes every bundled variant. Model metadata, selected GHG profile and native-set availability are None until a parsed database is provided. See Database profiles for the fields, availability rules and distinction from active compute settings.