obspy.sac.sacio.SacIO.ReadSacHeader

SacIO.ReadSacHeader(fh)[source]

Reads only the header portion of a binary SAC-file.

Parameters:fh file or file-like object.
>>> from obspy.sac import SacIO 
>>> tr = SacIO() 
>>> with open('test.sac', 'rb') as fh:
...     tr.ReadSacHeader(fh) 

This is equivalent to:

>>> with open('test.sac', 'rb') as fh:
...     tr = SacIO(fh, headonly=True)