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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#one-format-one-class">One format = one class</a></li>
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  <div class="section" id="neo-io">
<h1>Neo IO<a class="headerlink" href="#neo-io" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="preamble">
<h2>Preamble<a class="headerlink" href="#preamble" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The Neo <tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">io</span></tt> module aims to provide an exhaustive way of loading and saving several widely used data formats in electrophysiology.
The more these heterogeneous formats are supported, the easier it will be to manipulate them as Neo objects in a similar way.
Therefore the IO set of classes propose a simple and flexible IO API that fits many format specifications.
It is not only file-oriented, it can also read/write objects from a database.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-neo.io" title="neo.io"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">neo.io</span></tt></a> can be seen as a <em>pure-Python</em> and open-source Neuroshare replacement.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>At the moment, there are 3 families of IO modules:</dt>
<dd><ol class="first last arabic simple">
<li>for reading closed manufacturers&#8217; formats (Spike2, Plexon, AlphaOmega, BlackRock, Axon, ...)</li>
<li>for reading(/writing) formats from open source tools (KlustaKwik, Elan, WinEdr, WinWcp, PyNN, ...)</li>
<li>for reading/writing Neo structure in neutral formats (HDF5, .mat, ...) but with Neo structure inside (NeoHDF5, NeoMatlab, ...)</li>
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<p>Combining <strong>1</strong> for reading and <strong>3</strong> for writing is a good example of use: converting your datasets
to a more standard format when you want to share/collaborate.</p>
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<div class="section" id="introduction">
<h2>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>There is an intrinsic structure in the different Neo objects, that could be seen as a hierachy with cross-links. See <a class="reference internal" href="core.html"><em>Neo core</em></a>.
The highest level object is the <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> object, which is the high level container able to encapsulate all the others.</p>
<p>A <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> has therefore a list of <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt> objects, that can, in some file formats, be accessed individually.
Depending on the file format, i.e. if it is streamable or not, the whole <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> may need to be loaded, but sometimes
particular <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt> objects can be accessed individually.
Within a <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt>, the same hierarchical organisation applies.
A <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt> embeds several objects, such as <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SpikeTrain</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnalogSignal</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnaloSignalArray</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">EpochArray</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">EventArray</span></tt>
(basically, all the different Neo objects).</p>
<p>Depending on the file format, these objects can sometimes be loaded separately, without the need to load the whole file.
If possible, a file IO therefore provides distinct methods allowing to load only particular objects that may be present in the file.
The basic idea of each IO file format is to have, as much as possible, read/write methods for the individual encapsulated objects,
and otherwise to provide a read/write method that will return the object at the highest level of hierarchy
(by default, a <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> or a <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt>).</p>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-neo.io" title="neo.io"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">neo.io</span></tt></a> API is a balance between full flexibility for the user (all <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read_XXX()</span></tt> methods are enabled)
and simple, clean and understandable code for the developer (few <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read_XXX()</span></tt> methods are enabled).
This means that not all IOs offer the full flexibility for partial reading of data files.</p>
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<div class="section" id="one-format-one-class">
<h2>One format = one class<a class="headerlink" href="#one-format-one-class" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The basic syntax is as follows. If you want to load a file format that is implemented in a generic <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MyFormatIO</span></tt> class:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">MyFormatIO</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">reader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">MyFormatIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;myfile.dat&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>you can replace <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MyFormatIO</span></tt> by any implemented class, see <a class="reference internal" href="#list-of-io"><em>List of implemented formats</em></a></p>
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<div class="section" id="modes">
<h2>Modes<a class="headerlink" href="#modes" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>IO can be based on file, directory, database or fake
This is describe in mode attribute of the IO class.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">MyFormatIO</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">MyFormatIO</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mode</span>
<span class="go">&#39;file&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>For <em>file</em> mode the <em>filename</em> keyword argument is necessary.
For <em>directory</em> mode the <em>dirname</em> keyword argument is necessary.</p>
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<dt>Ex:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">reader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">PlexonIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_plexon_1.plx&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">reader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">TdtIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dirname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;aep_05&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="section" id="supported-objects-readable-objects">
<h2>Supported objects/readable objects<a class="headerlink" href="#supported-objects-readable-objects" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>To know what types of object are supported by a given IO interface:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">MyFormatIO</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">supported_objects</span>
<span class="go">[Segment , AnalogSignal , SpikeTrain, Event, Spike]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Supported objects does not mean objects that you can read directly. For instance, many formats support <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnalogSignal</span></tt>
but don&#8217;t allow them to be loaded directly, rather to access the <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnalogSignal</span></tt> objects, you must read a <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>To get a list of directly readable objects</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">MyFormatIO</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readable_objects</span>
<span class="go">[Segment]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The first element of the previous list is the highest level for reading the file. This mean that the IO has a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read_segment()</span></tt> method:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">type</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">neo.core.Segment</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All IOs have a read() method that returns a list of <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> objects (representing the whole content of the file):</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">neo.core.Segment</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="lazy-and-cascade-options">
<h2>Lazy and cascade options<a class="headerlink" href="#lazy-and-cascade-options" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In some cases you may not want to load everything in memory because it could be too big.
For this scenario, two options are available:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lazy=True/False</span></tt>. With <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lazy=True</span></tt> all arrays will have a size of zero, but all the metadata will be loaded. lazy_shape attribute is added to all object that
inheritate Quantitities or numpy.ndarray (AnalogSignal, AnalogSignalArray, SpikeTrain)  and to object that have array like attributes (EpochArray, EventArray)
In that cases, lazy_shape is a tuple that have the same shape with lazy=False.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cascade=True/False</span></tt>. With <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cascade=False</span></tt> only one object is read (and <em>one_to_many</em> and <em>many_to_many</em> relationship are not read).</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>By default (if they are not specified), <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lazy=False</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cascade=True</span></tt>, i.e. all data is loaded.</p>
<p>Example cascade:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">))</span>  <span class="c"># this is N</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">))</span>  <span class="c"># this is zero</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Example lazy:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># this is N</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># this is zero, the AnalogSignal is empty</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">lazy_shape</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># this is N</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Some IOs support advanced forms of lazy loading, cascading or both (these features are currently limited to the HDF5 IO, which supports both forms).</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">For lazy loading, these IOs have a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">load_lazy_object()</span></tt> method that takes a single parameter: a data object previously loaded by the same IO
in lazy mode. It returns the fully loaded object, without links to container objects (Segment etc.). Continuing the lazy example above:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">lazy_sig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>  <span class="c"># Empty signal</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">full_sig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">load_lazy_object</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy_sig</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy_sig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">lazy_shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">full_sig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># Identical</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy_sig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segment</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># Has the link to the object &quot;seg&quot;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">full_sig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segment</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># Does not have the link: None</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">For lazy cascading, IOs have a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">load_lazy_cascade()</span></tt> method. This method is not called directly when interacting with the IO, but its
presence can be used to check if an IO supports lazy cascading. To use lazy cascading, the cascade parameter is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'lazy'</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">block</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;lazy&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You do not have to do anything else, lazy cascading is now active for the object you just loaded. You can interact with the object in the same way
as if it was loaded with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cascade=True</span></tt>. However, only the objects that are actually accessed are loaded as soon as they are needed:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">block</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">recordingchannelgroups</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># The first RecordingChannelGroup is loaded</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">block</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>  <span class="c"># The first Segment and its second AnalogSignal are loaded</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Once an object has been loaded with lazy cascading, it stays in memory:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">block</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>  <span class="c"># The first Segment is already in memory, its first AnalogSignal is loaded</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="details-of-api">
<span id="neo-io-api"></span><h2>Details of API<a class="headerlink" href="#details-of-api" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-neo.io" title="neo.io"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">neo.io</span></tt></a> API is designed to be simple and intuitive:</dt>
<dd><ul class="first last simple">
<li>each file format has an IO class (for example for Spike2 files you have a <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Spike2IO</span></tt> class).</li>
<li>each IO class inherits from the <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">BaseIO</span></tt> class.</li>
<li>each IO class can read or write directly one or several Neo objects (for example <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt>, ...): see the <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">readable_objects</span></tt> and <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">writable_objects</span></tt> attributes of the IO class.</li>
<li>each IO class supports part of the <a class="reference internal" href="api_reference.html#module-neo.core" title="neo.core"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">neo.core</span></tt></a> hierachy, though not necessarily all of it (see <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">supported_objects</span></tt>).</li>
<li>each IO class has a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">read()</span></tt> method that returns a list of <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt> objects. If the IO only supports <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt> reading, the list will contain one block with all segments from the file.</li>
<li>each IO class that supports writing has a <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">write()</span></tt> method that takes as a parameter a list of blocks, a single block or a single segment, depending on the IO&#8217;s <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">writable_objects</span></tt>.</li>
<li>each IO is able to do a <em>lazy</em> load: all metadata (e.g. <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">sampling_rate</span></tt>) are read, but not the actual numerical data. lazy_shape attribute is added to provide information on real size.</li>
<li>each IO is able to do a <em>cascade</em> load: if <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt> (default) all child objects are loaded, otherwise only the top level object is loaded.</li>
<li>each IO is able to save and load all required attributes (metadata) of the objects it supports.</li>
<li>each IO can freely add user-defined or manufacturer-defined metadata to the <tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">annotations</span></tt> attribute of an object.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="module-neo.io">
<span id="list-of-implemented-formats"></span><span id="list-of-io"></span><h2>List of implemented formats<a class="headerlink" href="#module-neo.io" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-neo.io" title="neo.io"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">neo.io</span></tt></a> provides classes for reading and/or writing
electrophysiological data files.</p>
<p>Note that if the package dependency is not satisfied for one io, it does not
raise an error but a warning.</p>
<p>neo.io.iolist provides a list of succesfully imported io classes.</p>
<p>Classes:</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.AlphaOmegaIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">AlphaOmegaIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.AlphaOmegaIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading data from Alpha Omega .map files (experimental)</p>
<p>This class is an experimental reader with important limitations.
See the source code for details of the limitations.
The code of this reader is of alpha quality and received very limited
testing.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AlphaOmegaIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_AlphaOmega_1.map&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blck</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blck</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.AsciiSignalIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">AsciiSignalIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.AsciiSignalIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading signal in generic ascii format.
Columns respresents signal. They share all the same sampling rate.
The sampling rate is externally known or the first columns could hold the time
vector.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AsciiSignalIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_asciisignal_2.txt&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 39.0625    ,   0.        ,   0.        , ..., -26.85546875 ...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.AsciiSpikeTrainIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">AsciiSpikeTrainIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.AsciiSpikeTrainIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Classe for reading/writing SpikeTrain in a text file.
Each Spiketrain is a line.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AsciiSpikeTrainIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_ascii_spiketrain_1.txt&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>     
<span class="go">[&lt;SpikeTrain(array([ 3.89981604,  4.73258781,  0.608428  ,  4.60246277,  1.23805797,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.AxonIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">AxonIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.AxonIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading abf (axon binary file) file.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AxonIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_axon_1.abf&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;neo.core.segment.Segment object at 0x105516fd0&gt;]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 2.18811035,  2.19726562,  2.21252441, ...,  1.33056641,</span>
<span class="go">        1.3458252 ,  1.3671875 ], dtype=float32) * pA, [0.0 s, 191.2832 s], sampling rate: 10000.0 Hz)&gt;]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>
<span class="go">[]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.BlackrockIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">BlackrockIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em>, <em>full_range=array(8192.0) * mV</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.BlackrockIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading/writing data in a BlackRock Neuroshare ns5 files.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.BrainVisionIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">BrainVisionIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.BrainVisionIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading/writing data from BrainVision product (brainAmp, brain analyser...)</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BrainVisionIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_brainvision_1.eeg&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.BrainwareDamIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">BrainwareDamIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.BrainwareDamIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading Brainware raw data files with the extension &#8216;.dam&#8217;.</p>
<p>The read_block method returns the first Block of the file.  It will
automatically close the file after reading.
The read method is the same as read_block.</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>The file format does not contain a sampling rate.  The sampling rate
is set to 1 Hz, but this is arbitrary. If you have a corresponding .src
or .f32 file, you can get the sampling rate from that. It may also be
possible to infer it from the attributes, such as &#8220;sweep length&#8221;, if
present.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io.brainwaredamio</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">BrainwareDamIO</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">damfile</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">BrainwareDamIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;multi_500ms_mulitrep_ch1.dam&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">damfile</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">damfile</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.BrainwareF32IO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">BrainwareF32IO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.BrainwareF32IO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading Brainware Spike ReCord files with the extension &#8216;.f32&#8217;</p>
<p>The read_block method returns the first Block of the file.  It will
automatically close the file after reading.
The read method is the same as read_block.</p>
<p>The read_all_blocks method automatically reads all Blocks.  It will
automatically close the file after reading.</p>
<p>The read_next_block method will return one Block each time it is called.
It will automatically close the file and reset to the first Block
after reading the last block.
Call the close method to close the file and reset this method
back to the first Block.</p>
<p>The isopen property tells whether the file is currently open and
reading or closed.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Note 1:</dt>
<dd>There is always only one RecordingChannelGroup.  BrainWare stores the
equivalent of RecordingChannelGroups in separate files.</dd>
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io.brainwaref32io</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">BrainwareF32IO</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">f32file</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">BrainwareF32IO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;multi_500ms_mulitrep_ch1.f32&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f32file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f32file</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.BrainwareSrcIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">BrainwareSrcIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.BrainwareSrcIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading Brainware Spike ReCord files with the extension &#8216;.src&#8217;</p>
<p>The read_block method returns the first Block of the file.  It will
automatically close the file after reading.
The read method is the same as read_block.</p>
<p>The read_all_blocks method automatically reads all Blocks.  It will
automatically close the file after reading.</p>
<p>The read_next_block method will return one Block each time it is called.
It will automatically close the file and reset to the first Block
after reading the last block.
Call the close method to close the file and reset this method
back to the first Block.</p>
<p>The isopen property tells whether the file is currently open and
reading or closed.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Note 1:</dt>
<dd>The first Unit in each RecordingChannelGroup is always
UnassignedSpikes, which has a SpikeTrain for each Segment containing
all the spikes not assigned to any Unit in that Segment.</dd>
<dt>Note 2:</dt>
<dd>The first Segment in each Block is always Comments, which stores all
comments as Event objects.  The Event times are the timestamps
of the comments as the number of days since dec 30th 1899, while the
timestamp attribute has the same value in python datetime format</dd>
<dt>Note 3:</dt>
<dd>The parameters from the BrainWare table for each condition are stored
in the Segment annotations.  If there are multiple repetitions of
a condition, each repetition is stored as a separate Segment.</dd>
<dt>Note 4:</dt>
<dd>There is always only one RecordingChannelGroup.  BrainWare stores the
equivalent of RecordingChannelGroups in separate files.</dd>
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io.brainwaresrcio</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">BrainwareSrcIO</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">srcfile</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">BrainwareSrcIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;multi_500ms_mulitrep_ch1.src&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">srcfile</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blk2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">srcfile</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">blks</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">srcfile</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_all_blocks</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">units</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blk2</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blks</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">blks</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.ElanIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">ElanIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.ElanIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Classe for reading/writing data from Elan.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ElanIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_elan_1.eeg&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>   
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 89.21203613,  88.83666992,  87.21008301, ...,  64.56298828,</span>
<span class="go">    67.94128418,  68.44177246], dtype=float32) * pA, [0.0 s, 101.5808 s], sampling rate: 10000.0 Hz)&gt;]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>     
<span class="go">[]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>     
<span class="go">[]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.ElphyIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">ElphyIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.ElphyIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading from and writing to an Elphy file.</p>
<p>It enables reading:
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></tt>
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Segment</span></tt>
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RecordingChannel</span></tt>
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RecordingChannelGroup</span></tt>
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">EventArray</span></tt>
- <tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SpikeTrain</span></tt></p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ElphyIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;ElphyExample.DAT&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">)</span>  
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span><span class="p">)</span>    
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span><span class="p">)</span>    
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">anasig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_data_description</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">anasig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_analogsignal</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Block</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c"># creating segments, their contents and append to bl</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write_block</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">bl</span> <span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.KlustaKwikIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">KlustaKwikIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em>, <em>sampling_rate=30000.0</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.KlustaKwikIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Reading and writing from KlustaKwik-format files.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.MicromedIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">MicromedIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.MicromedIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading  data from micromed (.trc).</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">MicromedIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_micromed_1.TRC&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>              
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ -1.77246094e+02,  -2.24707031e+02,  -2.66015625e+02,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.NeoHdf5IO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">NeoHdf5IO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.NeoHdf5IO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The IO Manager is the core I/O class for HDF5 / NEO. It handles the
connection with the HDF5 file, and uses PyTables for data operations. Use
this class to get (load), insert or delete NEO objects to HDF5 file.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.NeoMatlabIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">NeoMatlabIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.NeoMatlabIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading/writing Neo objects in MATLAB format (.mat) versions 5 to 7.2.</p>
<p>This module is a bridge for MATLAB users who want to adopt the Neo object representation.
The nomenclature is the same but using Matlab structs and cell arrays.
With this module MATLAB users can use neo.io to read a format and convert it to .mat.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Rules of conversion:</dt>
<dd><ul class="first last simple">
<li>Neo classes are converted to MATLAB structs.
e.g., a Block is a struct with attributes &#8220;name&#8221;, &#8220;file_datetime&#8221;, ...</li>
<li>Neo one_to_many relationships are cellarrays in MATLAB.
e.g., <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">seg.analogsignals[2]</span></tt> in Python Neo will be <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">seg.analogsignals{3}</span></tt> in MATLAB.</li>
<li>Quantity attributes are represented by 2 fields in MATLAB.
e.g., <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anasig.t_start</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">1.5</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">s</span></tt> in Python
will be <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anasig.t_start</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">1.5</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anasig.t_start_unit</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">'s'</span></tt> in MATLAB.</li>
<li>classes that inherit from Quantity (AnalogSignal, SpikeTrain, ...) in Python will
have 2 fields (array and units) in the MATLAB struct.
e.g.: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnalogSignal(</span> <span class="pre">[1.,</span> <span class="pre">2.,</span> <span class="pre">3.],</span> <span class="pre">'V')</span></tt> in Python will be
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anasig.array</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">[1.</span> <span class="pre">2.</span> <span class="pre">3]</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anasig.units</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">'V'</span></tt> in MATLAB.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>1 - <strong>Scenario 1: create data in MATLAB and read them in Python</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>This MATLAB code generates a block:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>block = struct();
block.segments = { };
block.name = &#39;my block with matlab&#39;;
for s = 1:3
    seg = struct();
    seg.name = strcat(&#39;segment &#39;,num2str(s));
    seg.analogsignals = { };
    for a = 1:5
        anasig = struct();
        anasig.array = rand(100,1);
        anasig.units = &#39;mV&#39;;
        anasig.t_start = 0;
        anasig.t_start_units = &#39;s&#39;;
        anasig.sampling_rate = 100;
        anasig.sampling_rate_units = &#39;Hz&#39;;
        seg.analogsignals{a} = anasig;
    end
    seg.spiketrains = { };
    for t = 1:7
        sptr = struct();
        sptr.array = rand(30,1)*10;
        sptr.units = &#39;ms&#39;;
        sptr.t_start = 0;
        sptr.t_start_units = &#39;ms&#39;;
        sptr.t_stop = 10;
        sptr.t_stop_units = &#39;ms&#39;;
        seg.spiketrains{t} = sptr;
    end

    block.segments{s} = seg;
end
save &#39;myblock.mat&#39; block -V7
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This code reads it in Python:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">neo</span>
<span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">neo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">NeoMatlabIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;myblock.mat&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
<p>2 - <strong>Scenario 2: create data in Python and read them in MATLAB</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>This Python code generates the same block as in the previous scenario:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">neo</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">quantities</span> <span class="kn">as</span> <span class="nn">pq</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">scipy</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">rand</span>

<span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">neo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;my block with neo&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">s</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">neo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;segment&#39;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">anasig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">neo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AnalogSignal</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">units</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;mV&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t_start</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">pq</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">sampling_rate</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">pq</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Hz</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">anasig</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">t</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">sptr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">neo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SpikeTrain</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">units</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;ms&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t_start</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">pq</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ms</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t_stop</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">pq</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ms</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sptr</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>w = neo.io.NeoMatlabIO(filename=&#8217;myblock.mat&#8217;)
w.write_block(bl)</p>
<p>This MATLAB code reads it:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>load &#39;myblock.mat&#39;
block.name
block.segments{2}.analogsignals{3}.array
block.segments{2}.analogsignals{3}.units
block.segments{2}.analogsignals{3}.t_start
block.segments{2}.analogsignals{3}.t_start_units
</pre></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
<p>3 - <strong>Scenario 3: conversion</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>This Python code converts a Spike2 file to MATLAB:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Block</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo.io</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Spike2IO</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">NeoMatlabIO</span>

<span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Spike2IO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;myspike2file.smr&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">w</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">NeoMatlabIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;convertedfile.mat&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;a block&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">w</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bl</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.NeuroExplorerIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">NeuroExplorerIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.NeuroExplorerIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading nex file.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">NeuroExplorerIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_neuroexplorer_1.nex&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>   
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 39.0625    ,   0.        ,   0.        , ..., -26.85546875, ...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>     
<span class="go">[&lt;SpikeTrain(array([  2.29499992e-02,   6.79249987e-02,   1.13399997e-01, ...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>     
<span class="go">[&lt;EventArray: @21.1967754364 s, @21.2993755341 s, @21.350725174 s, @21.5048999786 s, ...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">epocharrays</span>     
<span class="go">[&lt;neo.core.epocharray.EpochArray object at 0x10561ba90&gt;, &lt;neo.core.epocharray.EpochArray object at 0x10561bad0&gt;]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.NeuroScopeIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">NeuroScopeIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.NeuroScopeIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd></dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.NeuroshareIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">NeuroshareIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=''</em>, <em>dllname=''</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.NeuroshareIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading file trougth neuroshare API.
The user need the DLLs in the path of the file format.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">NeuroshareIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;a_file&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dllname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">the_name_of_dll</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">import_neuroshare_segment</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>        
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ -1.77246094e+02,  -2.24707031e+02,  -2.66015625e+02,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>
<span class="go">[]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;EventArray: 1@1.12890625 s, 1@2.02734375 s, 1@3.82421875 s&gt;]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>Note:</dt>
<dd><p class="first">neuroshare.ns_ENTITY_EVENT: are converted to neo.EventArray
neuroshare.ns_ENTITY_ANALOG: are converted to neo.AnalogSignal
neuroshare.ns_ENTITY_NEURALEVENT: are converted to neo.SpikeTrain</p>
<dl class="last docutils">
<dt>neuroshare.ns_ENTITY_SEGMENT: is something between serie of small AnalogSignal</dt>
<dd>and Spiketrain with associated waveforms.
It is arbitrarily converted as SpikeTrain.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.PickleIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">PickleIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em>, <em>**kargs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.PickleIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd></dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.PlexonIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">PlexonIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.PlexonIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading plx file.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">PlexonIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_plexon_1.plx&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">spiketrains</span>  
<span class="go">[&lt;SpikeTrain(array([  2.75000000e-02,   5.68250000e-02,   8.52500000e-02, ...,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>
<span class="go">[]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.PyNNNumpyIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">PyNNNumpyIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em>, <em>**kargs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.PyNNNumpyIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Reads/writes data from/to PyNN NumpyBinaryFile format</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.PyNNTextIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">PyNNTextIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em>, <em>**kargs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.PyNNTextIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Reads/writes data from/to PyNN StandardTextFile format</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.RawBinarySignalIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">RawBinarySignalIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.RawBinarySignalIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading/writing data in a raw binary interleaved compact file.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">RawBinarySignalIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_ascii_signal_2.txt&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>  
<span class="gp">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.TdtIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">TdtIO</tt><big>(</big><em>dirname=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.TdtIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading data from from Tucker Davis TTank format.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">TdtIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dirname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;aep_05&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;neo.core.segment.Segment object at 0x1060a4d10&gt;]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 2.18811035,  2.19726562,  2.21252441, ...,  1.33056641,</span>
<span class="go">        1.3458252 ,  1.3671875 ], dtype=float32) * pA, [0.0 s, 191.2832 s], sampling rate: 10000.0 Hz)&gt;]</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eventarrays</span>
<span class="go">[]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="neo.io.WinEdrIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">WinEdrIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.WinEdrIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading data from WinEDR.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">WinEdrIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;File_WinEDR_1.EDR&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">seg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_segment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">seg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([ 89.21203613,  88.83666992,  87.21008301, ...,  64.56298828,</span>
<span class="go">        67.94128418,  68.44177246], dtype=float32) * pA, [0.0 s, 101.5808 s], sampling rate: 10000.0 Hz)&gt;]</span>
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<dt id="neo.io.WinWcpIO">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">neo.io.</tt><tt class="descname">WinWcpIO</tt><big>(</big><em>filename=None</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#neo.io.WinWcpIO" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Class for reading from a WinWCP file.</p>
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<dt>Usage:</dt>
<dd><div class="first last highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">neo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">io</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">WinWcpIO</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;File_winwcp_1.wcp&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">bl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">r</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_block</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazy</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">cascade</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span>   
<span class="go">[&lt;neo.core.segment.Segment object at 0x1057bd350&gt;, &lt;neo.core.segment.Segment object at 0x1057bd2d0&gt;,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">bl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">segments</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">analogsignals</span>
<span class="go">[&lt;AnalogSignal(array([-2438.73388672, -2428.96801758, -2425.61083984, ..., -2695.39453125,</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
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<h2>If you want to develop your own IO<a class="headerlink" href="#if-you-want-to-develop-your-own-io" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="io_developers_guide.html"><em>IO developers&#8217; guide</em></a> for information on how to implement of a new IO.</p>
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